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9 OpenSource URL shortening apps to make your own services

by 2E Editorial in Tools, freebies, php, resources

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There are many popular URL Shortening services provider on the web like tinyurl, bit.ly, su.pr, the basic idea for an URL shortening service is to replace the long URL in to easy to remember short URL, now days URL shortening service demands are increasing in regular computer users in Social Networking Sites, chat conversation, blog posts, as well as on twitter for entries.

Here are 9 Open Source free URL shortening scripts deployed on PHP and Ruby on Rails framework to create your own arena on the web:

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SHORTY

URL shortening script

Shorty is a simple tool for creating shorter, human- readable links from long URLs. You install Shorty on your server, so the links you create with it never go away. You can also manage your links and see how often people click on them.

demo – download

RUBYURL

URL shortening script

RubyURL was the first project that Robby Russell built and deployed with the Ruby on Rails framework in early 2005. It’s been running strong since then and until recently, was still running off of that original code base. During the summer of 2007, Robby teamed up with Chris Griffin, User Interface Designer at PLANET ARGON, for a complete rewrite and design of RubyURL.

The RubyURL team hopes that you find this tool useful in your mailing list posts, chat conversations, and twitter entries. The project is completely open source and being used as the foundation for several similar sites.

demo – download

KISSA BE (updated)

URL shortening script

kissa.be is shortener your url, email text and image and open source url shortener clone of tinyurl.

below all features in new latest version3.

1. Custom Url

2. Membership & twitter integration.

3. Copy 2 Clipboard

4. Statistic Page, Frame to iFrame.

5. Multilanguage support

6. Bookmarklet

7. Firefox add-on

8. Easy Installer Script

demo – download

URLI CA

URL shortening script

Simple and clean URL shortening script. If you have a really long URL it is sometimes impossible to add it in chat rooms or emails, so use this service to create your own short URL. Attracts high traffic. Attractive design.

demo – download

BROKEN SCRIPT

URL shortening script

BrokenScript is a URL shortening service that allows you to shorten long Internet addresses for easy reference.

demo – download

URL SHORT

URL shortening script

URLShort is a free, open source, and flexible URL shortener written in PHP & MySQL. At its core, urlShort is based upon the lilURL code, and as such urlShort is also released under the GNU GPL.

demo – download

TRIM

URL shortening script

The tr.im website for URL creation, account management and statistics presentation. more than just a tinyurl.

demo- dowmload

LILURL

URL shortening script

LILURL is a simple PHP/MySQL script for short URLs. It’s similar to TinyURL,

demo – download

YOURLS (Favorite)

URL shortening script

YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service, you can pick custom keyword URLs, it comes with its own API. You will love it.

demo – download

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Author: 2E Editorial
is a freelance web and graphic designer as well as developer. He is the author and owner of 2experts Design, a design blog with great inspirational posts. You can follow 2experts design on Twitter.

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Bariski | TutZone.net
October 10th, 2009

Awesome collection buddy. Keep up the good work
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Fredrik
October 11th, 2009

Shorten is a open source url shortening app build with asp.net mvc

http://shorten.codeplex.com/
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Dave Brookes
October 11th, 2009

YOURLS is a great one, just finished setting it up to work with Tweetie 2’s custom URL shortening function on the iPhone, works well so recommended!
Alex
October 11th, 2009

http://rod.gs es otro más!
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open source software
October 12th, 2009

wow….great
twitte_rskins
October 13th, 2009

Sweet list dude, now for a short domain name!
aldrin
October 13th, 2009

Nice list, by the way I hope you will include mine.

http://y-url.net/

The other one is coming is 8url.us

Thanks..
Photographer Geneva
October 15th, 2009

Wow, awesome list. It will be very usefull for my twitter posts linking to my portofolio,

Thank you.
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Vivek
November 4th, 2009

an awesome list on url shortening i know only few of them thanks for providing such useful infromation
Chase
December 12th, 2009

http://5pl.us is a good free url shortening service as well! It’s only 5 characters + your alias (custom or auto-generated). It’s still a new site so you can get one or two letter aliases no problem. eg. http://5pl.us/c
Domaincamp
December 13th, 2009

URLI.CA is a good script, but it has a stupid bug, it doesn’t support hyphen domain name. e.g. google-yahoo.com
Donna
January 2nd, 2010

Great collection, exactly what I was looking for, thanks! I’m good at searching but I found it really hard getting anywhere on this one. So I really appreciate that you took the time to find them and put together this collection. I’ve downloaded several to try.
fotos locas
February 5th, 2010

thanks, goods scripts