List of Top Free Open Source & Self Hosted Application for URL Shorteners

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URL shortening is the action of shortening a URL to make it substantially shorter and still direct to the required page.

Blink – Easy-to-host, SSO-integrated, CDN-powered link shortener (+decoupled analytics) for teams. AGPL-3.0 Nodejs
Clink – Dead-simple, super minimal URL shortener in C. AGPL-3.0 C
Easyshortener – A simple URL shortener. MIT PHP/Nodejs/Docker
goshorly – An easy self-hosted Link shortener in Golang. MIT Go
Kutt – A modern URL shortener with support for custom domains. MIT Nodejs
liteshort – User-friendly, actually lightweight, and configurable URL shortener. MIT Python
Lstu – Lightweight URL shortener. WTFPL Perl
Pastr – Super-minimal URL shortener and paste tool that uses a flat-file storage and has no dependencies. MIT Go
ReducePy – URL shortener service using Tornado and Redis runs on Docker and Kubernetes. MIT Python
schort – No login, no javascript, just short links. CC0-1.0 Python
Shlink – URL shortener with REST API and command line interface. Includes official progressive web application and docker images. MIT PHP
Short{Paste} – A Go based URL shortener, pastebin and file uploader. MIT Docker
shorturl – Simple URL shortener with very tiny URLs. MIT Go
Simple-URL-Shortener – KISS URL shortener, public or private (with account). Minimalist and lightweight. No dependencies. MIT PHP
Simply Shorten – A simple URL shortener that just shortens links. MIT Java
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 PHP

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