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8 self-hosted alternatives to clink (2026)

A super-minimal link shortening service written in pure C, focusing on small executable size, portability, and ease of configuration.

License: AGPL-3.0 · Language: C

bit

Fast, lightweight, resource-efficient, compiled URL shortener.

MITDocker/Crystal

Chhoto URL source

Simple, lightning-fast URL shortener with no bloat (fork of simply-shorten).

MITRust/Docker

Flink

Create QR Codes, embeddable link previews for your website and crawls/scrapes metadata.

MITDocker

Kutt source

Modern URL shortener with support for custom domains and custom URLs.

MITNodejs/Docker

rs-short

Lightweight link shortener written in Rust, with features such as caching, spambot protection and phishing detection.

MPL-2.0Rust

Shlink source

URL shortener with REST API and command line interface. Includes official progressive web application and docker images.

MITPHP/Docker

Simple-URL-Shortener

KISS URL shortener, public or private (with account). Minimalist and lightweight. No dependencies.

MITPHP

YOURLS source

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.

MITPHP

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