Cloud service which can generate individual links for the same file.

[tinkerbotsict]

Hi

 

I am wanting to share a files but I want each individual user I share with to have their own code.

 

Is there a cloud system which day could generate eg 50 links for a file in bulk instead of doing it individual once I shared 1 code?

 

I do have G-Drive but I don’t think that has this feature.

 

Thanks in advance.

[mavhc]

https://developers.rebrandly.com/v1/docs should work for you, you'd need a script to call the api 50 times, probably just 10 lines of python

[tinkerbotsict]

I have no idea how to do this might be a little advanced for me lol

[jmak]

What is it that you want to achieve? Who are you sharing the file with? It sounds like what Google Classroom was designed to help with - each pupil gets their own copy of a file to work on.

 

But I may be getting the wrong end of the stick [emoji846]

[tinkerbotsict]

No I have another google account that i use. I share resources I make and lesson etc but when I want to share them with people I want them to have their own link. This would help identify when my stuff get shared without me sharing who originally had it.

[jmak]

To catch people stealing from you! Makes sense. Sorry I couldn't help.

[tinkerbotsict]

Yeah that the basic idea I had but can’t seem to find cloud storage that offers it and if there another way I need to learn how to do it lol

[tom_newton]

Amazon s3 can do it, but again it's a bit of work to generate the links. Cachefly can make time limited links too

[tinkerbotsict]

Do you know anywhere that shows or explains how to generate them

[mavhc]

So, sign up for rebrandly, create your own domain if you wish/can do dns, then go to https://app.rebrandly.com/account/api-keys and click New API key

 

It'll give you some random characters, save the code below as ShortLinks.py, then copy and paste the random characters into the first line of this code, between the "s

 

apikey = ""
domain = "rebrand.ly"
import requests
import json

def inputNumber(message):
 while True:
   try:
      userInput = int(input(message))       
   except ValueError:
      print("Not an integer! Try again.")
      continue
   else:
      return userInput 
      break 
    
def createShortURL(destination):
 r = requests.post("https://api.rebrandly.com/v1/links", 
   data = json.dumps({
         "destination": destination
       , "domain": { "fullName": domain }
   }),
   headers={
     "Content-type": "application/json",
     "apikey": apikey
   })

 if (r.status_code == requests.codes.ok):
   link = r.json()
   return link["shortUrl"]
 else:
   return "Failed"

destination = input("Enter the link you wish to shorten: ")
numberOfLinks = inputNumber("How many short links do you wish to create? ")

for i in range(numberOfLinks):
 print(createShortURL(destination))

 

Install Python3, open a cmd window, type: pip install requests

It should say something like:

Collecting requests

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/65/47/7e02164a2a3db50ed6d8a6ab1d6d60b69c4c3fdf57a284257925dfc12bda

/requests-2.19.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (91kB)

 

Then double click the ShortLinks.py file, and if you don't have any proxy problems it should work