URL Shortener

🔗 Live Demo: https://urlshortener-production-88de.up.railway.app

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💡 About

URL Shortener lets you generate short link for your orginal link and lets you redirect to orginal link, it stores links independently for different users and let you keep track of creation and let you delete it as necessary

🛠️ Features

• Converts long URLs into short, unique links using Base62 encoding
• Allows short links to be opened directly from any browser
• Redirects users to the original website seamlessly
• Tracks how many times each short link is visited
• Includes user authentication so links are user-specific
• Deployed using Gunicorn and Whitenoise

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🧱 Tech Stack

This project uses:

Purpose	Technology
Backend	Django
Database	SQLite
Frontend Styles	Bootstrap
Markup	HTML
Styling	CSS
Deployment	Railway

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🚀 Getting Started (Local Setup)

To run the project locally:

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/dipeshluitel/URL_shortener.git
cd urlshortener

2. Create & activate a virtual environment

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate   # (Mac/Linux)
# or
venv\Scripts\activate      # (Windows)

3.Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Apply Migrations

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

5. Run Development Server

python manage.py runserver