# 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 -e COUCHDB_USER=root -e COUCHDB_PASSWORD=root -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 ```