commit 9bf43f27eb246734345d25d869fd1830b19bfd2c
Author: Rainy21 <simonzheng950@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Mar 9 20:24:07 2026 -0400

    basic_linkshortener

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# URL_shortener
diff --git a/__pycache__/main.cpython-313.pyc b/__pycache__/main.cpython-313.pyc
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diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
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+from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException
+from fastapi.responses import RedirectResponse
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+import string
+import random
+
+app = FastAPI()
+
+# temp storage
+url_db = {}
+
+
+class URLRequest(BaseModel):
+    long_url: str
+
+
+def generate_short_code(length=6):
+    chars = string.ascii_letters + string.digits
+    return "".join(random.choice(chars) for _ in range(length))
+
+
+@app.post("/shorten")
+def shorten_url(request: URLRequest):
+    short_code = generate_short_code()
+    url_db[short_code] = request.long_url
+    return {"short_url": f"http://localhost:8000/{short_code}"}
+
+
+@app.get("/{short_code}")
+def redirect_url(short_code: str):
+    if short_code in url_db:
+        return RedirectResponse(url=url_db[short_code])
+    raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="URL not found")
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+fastapi
+uvicorn