URL-Shortener

URL shortening is the action of shortening a URL to make it substantially shorter and still direct to the required page. Before hosting one, please see disadvantages of URL shorteners.

11 Apps

YOURLS

yourls.org

YOURLS is a set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run Your Own URL Shortener. Features include password protection, URL customization, bookmarklets, statistics, API, plugins, jsonp.

★ 12.172 MIT

Kutt

kutt.to

Modern URL shortener with support for custom domains and custom URLs.

★ 11.050 MIT

Shlink

shlink.io

URL shortener with REST API and command line interface. Includes official progressive web application and docker images.

★ 5.241 MIT

Chhoto URL

chhoto.link

Simple, lightning-fast URL shortener with no bloat (fork of simply-shorten).

★ 948 MIT

Flare

github.com

A nonbloated, modern, and highly configurable file/screenshot vault server with support for ShareX, Flameshot, and Spectacle. Offers OCR search and more.

★ 128 MIT

bit

github.com

Fast, lightweight, resource-efficient, compiled URL shortener.

★ 105 MIT

snowshare

github.com

File and link sharing platform with URL shortening, code snippet sharing, and file uploads, featuring customizable expiration, privacy settings, and QR codes.

★ 83 CC0-1.0

Simple-URL-Shortener

github.com

KISS URL shortener, public or private (with account). Minimalist and lightweight. No dependencies.

★ 59 MIT

clink

git.crueter.xyz

A super-minimal link shortening service written in pure C, focusing on small executable size, portability, and ease of configuration.

★ 0 AGPL-3.0

Flink

gitlab.com

Create QR Codes, embeddable link previews for your website and crawls/scrapes metadata.

★ 0 MIT

rs-short

git.42l.fr

Lightweight link shortener written in Rust, with features such as caching, spambot protection and phishing detection.

★ 0 MPL-2.0