shortenit/README.md

# Shortenit

Shortenit is a tool to shorten urls.

**NOTE**: This is a very early draft project. Contributions are welcome.

## Running

To run `shortenit`, first we need to have a running database. Shortenit uses [CouchDB](https://couchdb.apache.org/) as a database. CouchDB can run as a docker container.

```text
$ docker run -p 5984:5984 -d couchdb 
```

At this point, visit the local instance link [http://localhost:5984](http://localhost:5984/) and create the user credentials configured in [config/config.yaml](config/config.yaml).

Once the database is up and running and the credentials have been created, shortenit can be ran.

```text
$ pip install -e .
$ shortenit
```