Comments on: 7 Open Source And Free URL Shortener Scripts To Create Your Own

By: endless beginning

endless beginning — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:45:50 +0000

nice collection. I am going to adapt one. Can you please tell which one is the best overall?

By: Wahyu

Wahyu — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:39:02 +0000

Kissa.be url shortener service is shutdown

By: Samin Shams

Samin Shams — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:21:07 +0000

http://ur1.ca/ is also open

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:42:10 +0000

Where’s cortito?
http://github.com/akosma/cortito/
BSD license, done in Ruby on Rails
Enjoy!

By: Sharif Khan

Sharif Khan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:01:53 +0000

I like to use http://l4u.in
It gives short domains rather than /something.
It also gives me statistics of total clicks. Great short URL service to use.

I suggest to this article’s author to add this link as url shorten in this article
Features:

Visit http://l4u.in to create shortened/redirected URLs to any long URL.
# AJAX interface;
# Bulk URL shortening;
# Password-protected URLs;
# Temporary URLs;
# Custom tags;
# Custom tags for bulk URLs (automatically assigned tags like tag1, tag2, tag3 and so on);
# Redirects statistic – referer domain, referer page, visitor’s IP (+ link to geographical information about each visitor), date;
# URLs and hits statistics can be seen even without registration (IP-based authorization);
# Registered users: edit/delete URLs;
# Mass upload URLs from file;
# Export links to CSV file;

By: Janan

Janan — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:39:37 +0000

Sweeet! I’ve been looking for a free script to run my own url shrinking service.

thanks alot!

By: thexyz

thexyz — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:59:44 +0000

Thexyz.org is good one that pays users for using it.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:24:22 +0000

Or there’s the just released urlShort 2.0.0, which offers many of the features of popular short URL services like bit.ly in a free, open source package. http://mavrev.org/urlshort

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:15:00 +0000

For those interested in a very, very simple URL shortener written in Ruby on Rails, try cortito: http://github.com/akosma/cortito/

I’m using it as my own URL shortener: http://url.akosma.com/

By: Sean O

Sean O — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:08:24 +0000

Great list. I like Shorty’s admin panel.

If you’re looking to create your own URL shortener from scratch, rather than downloading one, I’ve recently posted a tutorial on how to do so in under 50 lines of code:

http://sean-o.com/short-URL