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Shlink

Shorten URLs with a self-hosted PHP app offering CLI and REST interfaces.

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Shlink is a self-hosted URL shortener written in PHP and released under the MIT license. It lets users shorten long URLs with generated or custom slugs, serve them under their own domains, and collect anonymized visit statistics with geolocation on each click.

The application exposes a REST API and a command line interface for creating and managing short URLs, domains, and visit data. A progressive web app supports managing multiple Shlink instances, and additional apps include the official Shlink Dashboard, the React-based Shlink Web Client, a PowerShell module, and a WordPress plugin. Features include multi-domain support, custom and multi-segment slugs, dynamic redirects based on geolocation, device type, or language, tags, emoji support, limited access by date range or visit count, API key roles, bot detection, third-party imports from bit.ly or YOURLS, and real-time event subscriptions via Mercure or RabbitMQ. It supports MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, and Microsoft SQL, and can be deployed from a distribution file or the official Docker image.

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