I was able to find several Django-based URL shortening apps, but I didn’t want redirection – I wanted native Base62 URLs. Fortunately, it wasn’t hard to roll up a system from scratch. Started by finding a python function to do the basic encoding – this one did the trick. I saved that in a utils.py in my app’s directory. Of course we need a new field to store the hashed strings in – I created a 5-c