School District Solution Help Needed

[Clay Smith]

Hi All, 

I have a Firebase Dynamic URL creator. I need to create around 3600 short URLs with specific short codes. I'd be pulling the short code from a spreadsheet. I'm competent in Appscript. I have not used the Firebase Dynamic URL REST API yet. Can anyone direct me to a resource for this specific use? I see I can use a long url and get a generic short link. Can I specify the short link I want? Thanks for your help this is a very quick turn around considering the situation. 

Clay

(NYC Schools)

[ChiefChippy2]

If I understand correctly, you want to create 3600 short URLs with specific short codes like 

short.link/ShortCode

right?

I would suggest doing the following : 

Make a do get function that detects the parameter, say, shortCode. 

Lookup the matching url from your source and return a simple html script that automatically redirects to the url.

Then, shorten your web app url with a url shortener service that passes arguments like tinyurl.

A similar process can be done with other services that doesn't support passing arguments from the shortened url to the original url with anchors ( i.e https://example.com#Shortcode ), which requires a more client-based script. ( since doGet can't return the #Shortcode part.)

Hope this helps.

[Clay Smith]

That helped a lot. I was able to get a URL shortener working from a sheet. Thanks for the tip!

[Darren D'Mello]

Which is the URL shortener you used?

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:19 AM Clay Smith <cl...@claycodes.org> wrote:

That helped a lot. I was able to get a URL shortener working from a sheet. Thanks for the tip!

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[Clay Smith]

I found a github repository which helped for my needs

On Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 2:54:51 AM UTC-4, miscellaneousmailer wrote:

Which is the URL shortener you used?

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That helped a lot. I was able to get a URL shortener working from a sheet. Thanks for the tip!

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