URL Shorteners / Free Software and web applications



This is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from SaaS providers. ---from github/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted


  • Kutt - A modern URL shortener with support for custom domains. (Source CodeMIT Nodejs
  • Link-shortener-bot  - URL shortener using a Telegram Bot. (DemoMIT Ruby
  • Linkr - Beautiful, fast URL shortening. (DemoSource CodeMIT Python/Nodejs
  • liteshort - User-friendly, actually lightweight, and configurable URL shortener. (DemoMIT Python
  • Lstu - Let's SHorten That Url - Lightweight URL shortener. WTFPL Perl
  • Nimbus - URL shortener and file sharer with a drag-and-drop OS X menu bar client and web interface. MIT Python
  • Polr - Modern, minimalist, modular, and lightweight URL shortener. (Source CodeGPL-2.0 PHP
  • reduc.io - URL shortener service written in Scala, using Akka-Http and Redis. MIT Scala
  • schort - No login, no javascript, just short links. (DemoCC0-1.0 Python
  • shorturl - Simple URL shortener with very tiny URLs. (DemoMIT Go
  • shuri - SHort URI - Lighweight URL shortener. MIT PHP
  • url-shortener  - Shitty url shortener, emoji and AI powered. MIT Nodejs
  • 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. (Source CodeMIT PHP