Top 16 URL Shortener Open-Source Projects

• 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.

• 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

• InfluxDB

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• 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 2,789 9.6 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

• gh-pages-url-shortener

  1 1,300 0.0 HTML

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

• 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

• Suri

  1 365 0.0 JavaScript

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

• WorkOS

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• Lstu

  0 200 4.9 Perl

  Lightweight URL shortener. Read-only mirror of https://framagit.org/fiat-tux/hat-softwares/lstu

• url-shortener

  0 160 0.0 JavaScript

  Shitty url shortener, emoji powered. 🌍✌🏼

• reduc.io

  0 69 0.0 Scala

  ❱ 🐇 URL shortener service is written in Scala using Akka-Http and Redis ❰

  

• Purl

  0 48 0.0 PHP

  Purl (Petite URL) is an open source project with the goal of providing you with your own private URL shortener! (by veloxy)

• Simple-URL-Shortener

  0 43 3.7 PHP

  url shortener written in php (with MySQL or SQLite) with history by users

• schort

  0 42 0.0 Python

  schort is a tiny link shortener written in python3 and flask

• ReducePy

  0 34 0.0 Python

  URL shortener service using Tornado and Redis runs on Docker and Kubernetes.

• shuri

  0 17 0.0 PHP

  Simple url shortener script

• Link-shortener-bot

  0 4 0.0 Shell

  Host your own link shortener that works with a bot. Just send the link to a bot and it'll take care of the rest for you.

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