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+django-brevisurl
+================
+
+django-brevisurl is django app for shortening urls. Brevis is a latin word, which means
+short, so the name brevisurl == shorturl or url shortener. The actual creating of short
+url is handled by the shortening backend.
+
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+- python 2.7+
+- django
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+Install via pypi or copy this module into your project or into your PYTHONPATH.
+
+
+**Put brevisurl into INSTALLED_APPS in your projects settings.py file**
+
+ INSTALLED_APPS = (
+     'localeurl',
+     'django.contrib.auth',
+     'django.contrib.contenttypes',
+     'django.contrib.sessions',
+     'django.contrib.sites',
+     'django.contrib.admin',
+     'django.contrib.sitemaps',
+     'web',
+     'debug_toolbar',
+     'rosetta',
+     'south',
+     'brevisurl'
+ )
+
+
+**Run syncdb command to create database tables from brevisurl models**
+
+::
+
+ python manage.py syncdb
+
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+**django settings.py constants**
+
+::
+
+ # Setting for default brevis backend
+ BREVISURL_BACKEND = 'brevisurl.backends.local.BrevisUrlBackend' # Default is 'brevisurl.backends.local.BrevisUrlBackend'
+
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+**Example 1**
+
+Using programmatic approach
+
+::
+
+ from brevisurl import get_connection
+
+ connection = get_connection()
+ short_url_obj = connection.shorten_url('http://www.codescale.net/')
+ print short_url_obj.shortened_url
+
+
+**Example 2**
+
+Using programmatic approach with shortcut
+
+::
+
+ from brevisurl import shorten_url
+
+ shor_url_obj = shorten_url('http://www.codescale.net/')
+ print shor_url_obj.shortened_url
+
+
+**Example 3**
+
+Using brevisurl in templates via filter approach
+
+::
+
+ {% load brevisurl %}
+ {% url homepage as homepage_url %}
+ {{ homepage_url|shorten_url }}
+
+
+**Example 4**
+
+Using brevisurl in templates with filtered tag approach.
+brevisurl comes with special tag called `absurl` that works
+exactly the same as `url` django tag but prepends protocol + domain
+in front of resovled url path.
+
+::
+
+ {% load brevisurltags %}
+ {% absurl homepage as homepage_url %}
+ {{ homepage_url|shorten_url }}
+
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+**Tested on evnironment**
+
+- Xubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS precise 64-bit
+- python 2.7.3+
+- python unittest
+- django 1.4
+
+**Running tests**
+
+To run the test run command: ::
+
+ $ python manage.py test brevisurl
+
+
+
+Author
+------
+
+| char0n (Vladimír Gorej, CodeScale s.r.o.)
+| email: gorej@codescale.net
+| web: http://www.codescale.net
+
+
+References
+----------
+
+ - http://github.com/char0n/django-brevisurl
+ - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-brevisurl/
+ - http://www.codescale.net/en/community#django-brevisurl
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