URL Shorteners#
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.
Software#
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bit#
Fast, lightweight, resource-efficient, compiled URL shortener.
Chhoto URL#
Simple, lightning-fast URL shortener with no bloat (fork of simply-shorten).
clink#
A super-minimal link shortening service written in pure C, focusing on small executable size, portability, and ease of configuration.
Flink#
Create QR Codes, embeddable link previews for your website and crawls/scrapes metadata.
Just Short It!#
A KISS, single-user URL shortener that runs in just one container.
Kutt#
Modern URL shortener with support for custom domains and custom URLs.
liteshort#
User-friendly, actually lightweight, and configurable URL shortener.
rs-short#
Lightweight link shortener written in Rust, with features such as caching, spambot protection and phishing detection.
Shlink#
URL shortener with REST API and command line interface. Includes official progressive web application and docker images.
Simple-URL-Shortener#
KISS URL shortener, public or private (with account). Minimalist and lightweight. No dependencies.
YOURLS#
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.