URL Manager

A URL management tool that helps you organize and access your links efficiently.

Features

• Create and manage short links
• Template links with dynamic parameters
• Bookmark pages with automatic title and summary extraction
• Advanced search capabilities
• API access
• Asynchronous page processing

Installation

Using Docker (Recommended)

1. Prerequisites:

   • Docker
   • Docker Compose

2. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/url-manager.git
   cd url-manager
   

3. Build and start services:

   ./docker.sh build
   ./docker.sh start
   

The application will be available at http://localhost:8000

Docker Management Commands

• Start all services:

  ./docker.sh start
  

• Stop all services:

  ./docker.sh stop
  

• Restart services:

  ./docker.sh restart
  

• View logs:

  ./docker.sh logs
  

• Run database migrations:

  ./docker.sh migrate
  

• Create new migrations:

  ./docker.sh makemigrations
  

• Access Django shell:

  ./docker.sh shell
  

Docker Services

The application runs the following services:

• web: Django web server (port 8000)
• celery_worker: Processes background tasks
• celery_beat: Schedules periodic tasks
• redis: Message broker and result backend

Manual Installation

If you prefer not to use Docker:

1. Install Python 3.12 and Redis

2. Install uv:

   curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
   

3. Install dependencies:

   uv pip install -r requirements.txt
   

4. Run migrations:

   python manage.py migrate
   

5. Start the development server:

   ./run_server.sh
   

6. Start Celery worker:

   ./worker.sh
   

7. Start Celery beat:

   ./celery_beat.sh
   

Usage

Managing Links

1. Create a new link:

   • Visit /create/
   • Enter the original URL and desired alias
   • For template links, use {param} syntax

2. Access a link:

   • Use http://localhost:8000/your-alias
   • For template links: http://localhost:8000/your-alias/parameter

Managing Pages

1. Create a new page:

   • Visit /ui/pages/new/
   • Enter the URL
   • Title and summary will be automatically extracted

2. View all pages:

   • Visit /ui/pages/

API Access

The application provides a REST API:

• List pages: GET /api/pages/
• Create page: POST /api/pages/

Example:

Monitoring Celery Tasks

The application includes Flower for monitoring Celery tasks. You can access it in two ways:

1. Direct access:

   • Visit http://localhost:5555 in your browser

2. Using management script:

   ./docker.sh flower
   

Flower provides:

• Real-time monitoring of Celery tasks
• Task progress and history
• Worker status and statistics
• Error tracking
• Task graphs and charts

Monitoring Features

1. View all tasks:

   • Active tasks
   • Scheduled tasks
   • Failed tasks
   • Success rate

2. Worker information:

   • Status
   • Resource usage
   • Queue length

3. Task details:

   • Arguments
   • Start time
   • Runtime
   • Result
   • Stack traces for failed tasks

Why we have core folder and what it is?

The core folder is the Django project's root configuration directory, created when you first run django-admin startproject core. It serves several essential purposes: Project-wide settings (settings.py): Database configuration Installed apps Middleware Static/media files settings Other global settings Root URL configuration (urls.py): Main URL routing Admin site URLs Including app-specific URLs 3. WSGI/ASGI configuration: For production deployment Server integration Celery configuration (celery.py): Project-wide Celery settings Task discovery We can't completely remove it because Django requires this project-level configuration. The links folder is an app within the project, and you could have multiple apps in one project. Think of it this way: core/ = Project configuration (can contain multiple apps) links/ = One specific app's code This separation allows you to:

1. Have multiple apps in one project Reuse apps across different projects Keep project-wide settings separate from app-specific code If you want to simplify, you could rename core to something shorter like config or core, but you can't eliminate it entirely as it's a fundamental part of Django's project structure. Would you like me to show you how to rename it to something shorter and cleaner?

Development

Using uv for Dependency Management

uv is a fast Python package installer and resolver. To add new dependencies:

uv pip

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Image resizing

• bind custom domain
• enable image resizing https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/transform-images/