URL Shorteners
Sorted by GitHub stars, which measures attention rather than fitness. Read the release date and the commit count next to it before picking one.
| Tool | Stars |
|---|---|
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. MIT · released 2026-08-30 | 12,221 |
Modern URL shortener with support for custom domains and custom URLs. MIT · released 2026-07-05 | 11,082 |
URL shortener with REST API and command line interface. Includes official progressive web application and docker images. MIT · released 2026-09-06 | 5,270 |
Simple, lightning-fast URL shortener with no bloat (fork of simply-shorten). MIT · released 2026-09-05 | 964 |
A nonbloated, modern, and highly configurable file/screenshot vault server with support for ShareX, Flameshot, and Spectacle. Offers OCR search and more. MIT · released 2026-08-01 | 133 |
Fast, lightweight, resource-efficient, compiled URL shortener. MIT · released 2026-08-07 | 106 |
File and link sharing platform with URL shortening, code snippet sharing, and file uploads, featuring customizable expiration, privacy settings, and QR codes. CC0-1.0 · released 2026-07-24 | 84 |
KISS URL shortener, public or private (with account). Minimalist and lightweight. No dependencies. MIT · released 2015-05-09 | 60 |
Create QR Codes, embeddable link previews for your website and crawls/scrapes metadata. MIT · released unknown | n/a |
A super-minimal link shortening service written in pure C, focusing on small executable size, portability, and ease of configuration. AGPL-3.0 · released unknown | n/a |
Lightweight link shortener written in Rust, with features such as caching, spambot protection and phishing detection. MPL-2.0 · released unknown | n/a |
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