YOURLS Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Raindrop.io: cross-platform, collaborative bookmark manager

  This is what I use and like: https://yourls.org. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Building a url shortner, similar to bitly, can I make it profitable?

  Similar to...? https://yoslash.com/ Personally I just use https://yourls.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• self-hosted url shorter with device targeting

  YOURLS has a "detect-mobile-device" plugin. Is that what you were looking for? Source: about 1 year ago

• Tool/solution to "masquerade" or encode/decode part of the url to avoid showing subpaths details (f.e: myDomain.tld/myFolder/MyFile should became myDomain.tld/casualStringGeneratedAndMappedByTheTool) ?

  You will need to implement the YOURLS URL Shortener (https://yourls.org) and then implement the following YOURLS Plug-in - https://github.com/peterberbec/yourls-keyword_charset_length (Keywords, Charset & Length). Source: about 1 year ago

• How create Short Links from my main domain name?

  Personally I would use something like this, although it does require a database. https://yourls.org/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Dub.sh An Open Source Bit.ly alternative

  Other alternative which is very easy: Https://yourls.org/. Source: over 1 year ago

• URL Shortening

  Combine a self-hosted service like https://yourls.org/ with a short subdomain name at one of your domains. Then you can map something like go to that IP address. Source: over 1 year ago

• A SaaS to protect any web page with a password?

  There are many services that offer such a functionality. Just search for "password protected link shortener". One example would be https://maglit.me/ by u/NayamAmarshe (I haven't tried it, I only read this post). However if you care for privacy (kind of the point of the whole post) and you have a web server you might want to selfhost the service (has a lot of other advantages as well, link all the easy to remember... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Compatibility with Short.io

  It's always possible to self-host a url shortener like yourls (https://yourls.org/) or whatever the cool kids use these days and make it available on a handshake name. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Self-hosted alternative to Redirection.io and Redirect.pizza

  Https://yourls.org/ might work - iirc there's a 404 page plugin you could edit to just redirect to the homepage of your second domain. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Looking to set up a URL shortener

  If you plan on going the domain.com/three route, I've used yourls which has been working great for me for years. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Git.io: GitHub will maintain active links in a read-only state

  I've been using a personal link shortening service (https://m8.fyi) for a few years now... e.g. https://m8.fyi/gitio. I use http://yourls.org if anyone's interested. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• QR-Code URL Manager

  You could potentially use https://yourls.org/. Source: about 2 years ago

• Privacy-Centric Alternatives To Bit.ly

  If you're technically inclined I'd recommend self hosting yourls. https://yourls.org/ https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS. Source: about 2 years ago

• I made yet another self-hosted URL shortener! [Blink] [no but really, there's reasons for there to be yet another URL shortener, hear me out]

  How does blink compare to other free software URL shorteners such as YOURLS? Source: over 2 years ago

• it is time to confess, brothers

  Your get https://yourls.org and selfhost. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Does anything exist to track sidebar click/engagement details?

  The only way I have been able to track these sorts of things is using something like yourls. It is an open source (free) URL shortner that will track clicks and a few other items. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Link shorteners: why you shouldn't use them

  I run my own using [YOURLS](https://yourls.org). It addresses the issues brought up in the article: - Control your links. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Question: What is the recommended URL-Shortener selfhosted software?

  I’ve been using https://yourls.org/ for years and works pretty well. Source: almost 3 years ago

• YOURLS 1.8.1 Released

  Download source code below and upload to your server. Detailed instructions on https://yourls.org/#Install. Source: about 3 years ago

• Link shortener with Open Graph / oEmbed meta tags?

  We use https://yourls.org/ which is quite nice. Source: about 3 years ago