From 20a17c9fb7cce57f66628af2c4896a5ba0f5d691 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rimu <3310831+rimu@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:24:30 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] don't shorten invalid urls

---
 app/utils.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/utils.py b/app/utils.py
index 328d382b..51a50137 100644
--- a/app/utils.py
+++ b/app/utils.py
@@ -492,7 +492,10 @@ def shorten_string(input_str, max_length=50):
 
 
 def shorten_url(input: str, max_length=20):
-    return shorten_string(input.replace('https://', '').replace('http://', ''))
+    if input:
+        return shorten_string(input.replace('https://', '').replace('http://', ''))
+    else:
+        ''
 
 
 # the number of digits in a number. e.g. 1000 would be 4