Redirector is a simple link redirecting service. Built using Flask and SQLAlchemy, it aims to provide a way to shorten and redirect links but usually fails at the former.

Since I'm awful at making pretty interfaces, creation of redirection links can currently only take place using POST requests.

Use the following Python script to make a POST request and create your link.

import sys
import requests

params = {
    "source_url" = sys.argv[1],
    "alias_url" = sys.argv[2]
}

response = requests.post("https://goto-link.herokuapp.com/register", data=params)
print(str(response.content))

Execute the above script using

python3 source_url alias_url

Example, use

python3 https://github.com/ git

You can access an alias link using goto-link/alias_name

• Open Source

Yup, that's the only advantage I can think of.

• The alias links may not be always shorter because of the size of the link prefix
• Creation of alias links is tedious (for now)

It is not as bad as it sounds though.

A pretty interface to create alias links would be a good starting point.

Honestly, even I do not know why this exists.