Self-hosted URL Shorteners software
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.
11 projects, sorted by GitHub stars (as recorded in the dataset). Star counts and dates come from the dataset snapshot, not live.
| Name | Description | License | Stars | Updated | Platforms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | MIT | 12,263 | 2026-10-19 | PHP | Source |
| Kutt | Modern URL shortener with support for custom domains and custom URLs. | MIT | 11,160 | 2026-10-19 | Nodejs, Docker | Source |
| Shlink | URL shortener with REST API and command line interface. Includes official progressive web application and docker images. | MIT | 5,351 | 2026-10-16 | PHP, Docker | Source |
| Chhoto URL | Simple, lightning-fast URL shortener with no bloat (fork of simply-shorten). | MIT | 990 | 2026-10-20 | Rust, Docker | Source |
| Flare | A nonbloated, modern, and highly configurable file/screenshot vault server with support for ShareX, Flameshot, and Spectacle. Offers OCR search and more. | MIT | 138 | 2026-10-19 | Docker, Nodejs | Source |
| bit | Fast, lightweight, resource-efficient, compiled URL shortener. | MIT | 108 | 2026-10-04 | Docker, Crystal | Source |
| snowshare | 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 | 89 | 2026-10-16 | Nodejs, Docker | Source |
| Simple-URL-Shortener | KISS URL shortener, public or private (with account). Minimalist and lightweight. No dependencies. | MIT | 60 | 2025-08-28 | PHP | Source |
| clink | A super-minimal link shortening service written in pure C, focusing on small executable size, portability, and ease of configuration. | AGPL-3.0 | — | — | C | Source |
| Flink | Create QR Codes, embeddable link previews for your website and crawls/scrapes metadata. | MIT | — | — | Docker | Source |
| rs-short | Lightweight link shortener written in Rust, with features such as caching, spambot protection and phishing detection. | MPL-2.0 | — | — | Rust | Source |