Required

Note some requirements in requirements.txt are for Heroku only. Below are the actual requirements for running the application locally.

• Python 3 (Python 2 untested)
• Flask
• Requests

Use

Note these are *nix instructions, usage on Windows may be different. Using a *nix system is highly recommended to avoid any undue frustration.

$ export FLASK_APP=microURL.py
$ flask run

This application has been successfully deployed to Heroku as well. The required Heroku files are included,

• Procfile
• requirements.txt
• runtime.txt

See the Flask documents for more information about using Flask.