links

A secure shortlink server inspired by CS61A's Link Servers (links, shortlinks)

Local Setup

1. Create a virtualenv

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Developed and tested on Python 3.7.4

2. Environment variables

Google Oauth & Flask App

• FN_AUTH_REDIRET_URI
• FN_BASE_URI
• FN_CLIENT_ID
• FN_CLIENT_SECRET
• FN_FLASK_SECRET_KEY

See this guide

Google Sheets API (can be substitude with credentials.json)

• CRED_TYPE
• PROJ_ID
• KEY_ID
• KEY
• SERVICE_EMAIL
• SERVICE_ID
• AUTH_URI
• TOKEN_URI
• AUTH_PROVIDER
• CLIENT_CERT

Enable Google Sheets API and download credentials.json from GCP

Private Link Spreadsheet

• SHEET_NAME
• SHEET_ID

Create Google Spreadsheet from the following template

3. Run

python3 app.py

The links app will be listening at http://localhost:5000/

Development

1. In development, add debug=True as a keyword argument to app.run in app.py. Remove before deploying to production.