Scissor

Cutle is a simple tool which makes URLs as short as possible, as "brief is the new black" in the age of social media.

Cutle converts long URLs into easily sharable QR codes and short, customizable links.

This tool was built as a capstone project by Zichdan, a Backend Engineering student at AltSchool Africa who's learning to create magic with Python.

Live Site: cutle.tech

Full Documentation: Scissor Wiki

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Creating this tool helped to learn and practice:

• Responsive Web Design
• URL Shortening
• QR Code Generation
• Rate Limiting
• Caching
• Debugging
• Routing
• Database Management
• Internet Security
• User Authentication
• User Authorization
• Message Flashing
• Documentation

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This tool can be accessed via the deployed site or a local copy of the project.

Deployed site: cutle.tech - hosted via render

To get a local copy up and running, follow the steps below.

Python3: Get Python

1. Clone this repo

   git clone https://github.com/zichdan/scissor.git

2. Activate the virtual environment

   source scissor/bin/activate

3. Install project packages

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run Flask

   flask run

5. Open the link generated in the terminal on a browser

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Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

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Daniel Ezichi - @Zichdan_ - zichdan1999@gmail.com

Live Site: cutle.tech

Project Link: Cutle Repo

Documentation: Scissor Wiki

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This project was made possible by:

• AltSchool Africa School of Engineering
• Caleb Emelike's Flask Lessons
• My AltSchool Python Repo
• GitHub Student Pack
• namecheap
• Othneil Drew's README Template
• Ileriayo's Markdown Badges
• Stack Overflow

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