url_shortener 0.5.10

Installing

Pip:

pip install url_shortener

Pypi:

https://pypi-hypernode.com/pypi/url_shortener

Manual:

python setup.py install

Configuration

You can either modify the config.py file or provide environment variables to configure url_shortener. The following environment variables can be tweaked:

• REDIS_HOST: Address at which the redis server lives, defaults to 127.0.0.1.

• REDIS_PORT: Port on which to contact redis, defaults to 6379.

• URL_PREFIX: URL scheme for your short url host

• LISTEN_HOST: Address to bind to for the short url service

• LISTEN_PORT: Port to bind to

• RIEMANN_HOST: Address to use to contact riemann

• RIEMANN_PORT: Port to use to contact riemann

Logging

When not run in debug mode, the application will output logs for consumption by logstash, using logstash_formatter

Usage

The service can simply be started by invoking: url-shortener, alternately deployments can be done with gunicorn. To start the service with gunicorn with 8 worker processes for instance, the following can be used:

gunicorn  -w 8 --log-file=/var/log/url-shortener/gunicorn.log --log-level=info url_shortener:app