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.

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★55 2025-04-07 Docker Crystal MIT

URL Shorteners


Chhoto URL#

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

Website Source Code Clients Demo

★344 2025-08-18 Rust Docker MIT

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Flare#

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

Website Source Code

★55 2025-08-25 Docker Nodejs MIT

File Transfer - Single-click & Drag-n-drop Upload File Transfer - Web-based File Managers File Transfer - Object Storage & File Servers URL Shorteners



Just Short It!#

A KISS, single-user URL shortener that runs in just one container.

Website Source Code

★53 2024-09-28 Docker MIT

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Kutt#

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

Website Source Code Demo

★10052 2025-04-24 Nodejs Docker MIT

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liteshort#

User-friendly, actually lightweight, and configurable URL shortener.

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★? ? Python deb MIT

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rs-short#

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

Website Source Code Demo

★? ? Rust MPL-2.0

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Simple-URL-Shortener#

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

Website Source Code Demo

★57 2025-08-26 PHP MIT

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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.

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★11506 2025-08-26 PHP MIT

URL Shorteners