botmonster @botmonster.com · 29d

A production URL shortener in under 200 lines of Python: SQLite for zero-config storage that does thousands of req/s, base62 to turn IDs into short strings, SlowAPI to block spam. Ships in a 50 MB Docker container behind Caddy. Why pay for Bitly when this is an evening?

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botmonster · 29d

SQLite handles thousands of requests per second with zero config. base62 encodes database IDs into clean short slugs. SlowAPI rate limiting blocks the spam bots. https://botmonster.com/web-dev/build-url-shortener-from-scratch-200-lines/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social