Top 23 url-shortener Open-Source Projects

• ShareX

  578 27,580 9.3 C#

  ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

  

Project mention: The fastest tool for measuring anything on your screen | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-06

• YOURLS

  47 10,207 7.1 PHP

  🔗 The de facto standard self hosted URL shortener in PHP

  

Project mention: How I Accidentally Made My Link Shortener into a Malware Honeypot | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-01

A couple years ago a client asked me for their own URL shortener service. I found YOURLS (https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS) and reluctantly installed it on a cheap, shared, hosting account.

Thankfully after a couple years, I convinced them (it took several tries) to use a 3rd party hosted provider.

Bullet dodged.

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• Kutt.it

  10 8,065 0.0 TypeScript

  Free Modern URL Shortener.

  

Project mention: Raindrop.io: cross-platform, collaborative bookmark manager | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-27

Tangentially related: I'm in search of a lightweight self-hosted URL shortener. Tried shlink[0] but man it's a bit of a bear, requiring 5 (yes, five) separate Docker containers. Also tried kutt[1] but it appears to be abandoned.

[0] https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink

[1] https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt

• Polr

  12 4,897 4.0 PHP

  :aerial_tramway: A modern, powerful, and robust URL shortener

Project mention: Copying microsofts aka.ms links with our internal Dns to help stop phishing | /r/sysadmin | 2023-07-08

That said, setting up a URL shortener to forward HTTP requests it pretty trivial. There are open source projects that already exist for this purpose. For example, https://polrproject.org/

• Shlink

  29 2,761 9.5 PHP

  The definitive self-hosted URL shortener

  

Project mention: Raindrop.io: cross-platform, collaborative bookmark manager | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-27

Tangentially related: I'm in search of a lightweight self-hosted URL shortener. Tried shlink[0] but man it's a bit of a bear, requiring 5 (yes, five) separate Docker containers. Also tried kutt[1] but it appears to be abandoned.

[0] https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink

[1] https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt

• zws

  7 1,608 9.7 TypeScript

  Shorten URLs using invisible spaces

  

• JSONCrush

  4 1,522 0.0 JavaScript

  Compress JSON into URL friendly strings

Project mention: JSONCrush: Compress JSON into URL friendly strings | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-17

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• gh-pages-url-shortener

  1 1,300 0.0 HTML

  Minimal URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub pages.

• UrlHum

  0 669 0.0 PHP

  The modern, privacy-aware URL Shortener built in PHP.

  

• reduced.to

  9 557 9.6 TypeScript

  Free Modern URL Reducer. Make sure to share love by giving it a star.🌟 Have a great day!

Project mention: ✨Free open-source URL shortener project (Written using NX, Qwik, Nest.js, and Prisma) ✨ | /r/qwik | 2023-10-06

Some important and good issue to work on: https://github.com/origranot/reduced.to/issues/423 https://github.com/origranot/reduced.to/issues/393

• awesome-url-shortener

  1 532 5.9

  🔗 A curated list of awesome url shortener

• ShareX-Upload-Server

  1 392 3.6 JavaScript

  AKA ShareS - Feature full & Stable ShareX and file server in node. Includes images, videos, code, text, markdown rendering, password protected uploads, logging via discord, administration through Discord, url shortening, and a full front end. Use standalone or via reverse proxy

• dogbin

  0 365 0.0 Kotlin

  The sexiest pastebin and url shortener ever

  

• Suri

  1 365 0.0 JavaScript

  Your own link shortener that's easily deployed as a static site (for free)

• shlink-web-client

  1 257 9.6 TypeScript

  A React-based client application for Shlink

  

Project mention: Is anyone using Shlink (link shortener) with Cloudflare? | /r/opensource | 2023-10-10

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• loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ng

  4 256 3.9 Astro

  Lengthen your URLs: lo(x62).ng

Project mention: You’ve heard of bit.ly, right? This tool does the exact opposite. | /r/u_allthosepacheeks | 2023-06-19

• filite

  0 191 1.0 Rust

  A simple, light and standalone pastebin, URL shortener and file-sharing service

• sheets-url-shortener

  1 180 0.0 Go

  A simple short URL redirect service built on top of Google Sheets, and runs for cheap on Google Cloud Run serverless.

• supaflare

  1 171 4.9 Vue

  URL shortener / redirection service powered by Supabase, Cloudflare Workers, Workers KV and Cloudflare Pages.

  

• Lynx

  5 152 8.2 Vue

  A fullstack application using the MEVN stack to shorten your URLs. (by Lynx-Shortener)

  

Project mention: Raindrop.io: cross-platform, collaborative bookmark manager | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-27

*Update:* I've settled on Lynx[0] for now. It's still actively being developed, deploys pretty easily with docker compose, and is lightweight.

[0] https://github.com/Lynx-Shortener/Lynx

• urlsh

  5 144 3.0 Go

  Golang URL shortener and bookmarker service with UI, API, Cache, Hits Counter and forwarder using postgres and redis in backend, bulma in frontend. Think of it as self hosting ready url shortener.

• emojied

  3 143 4.0 Rust

  ✂️ A URL shortener that uses emojis, only emojis.

• smalllinks

  7 110 0.0 JavaScript

  Simple URL shortener built with Fastify. Uses PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka.

  

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url-shortener related posts

• Raindrop.io: cross-platform, collaborative bookmark manager
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2023
• Shorten, personalize, and share fully branded short URLs with continuous integration on Cloudflare
  1 project | /r/CloudFlare | 16 Nov 2023
• JSONCrush: Compress JSON into URL friendly strings
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2023
• Copying microsofts aka.ms links with our internal Dns to help stop phishing
  2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 8 Jul 2023
• Selfhosted mail tracker?
  1 project | /r/selfhosted | 28 Jun 2023
• You’ve heard of bit.ly, right? This tool does the exact opposite.
  1 project | /r/u_allthosepacheeks | 19 Jun 2023
• URL Lengthener
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2023
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