Building a URL Shortener With FastAPI and Python
In this video course, you’ll build a URL shortener with Python and FastAPI.
URLs can be extremely long and not user-friendly.
This is where a URL shortener can come in handy.
A URL shortener reduces the number of characters in a URL, making it easier to read, remember, and share.
By following this step-by-step project, you’ll build a URL shortener with Python and FastAPI.
At the end of this course, you’ll have a fully functional API-driven web app that creates shortened URLs that forward to target URLs.
In this video course, you’ll learn how to:
- Create a REST API with FastAPI
- Run a development web server with Uvicorn
- Model an SQLite database
- Investigate the auto-generated API documentation
- Interact with the