9 OpenSource URL shortening apps to make your own services
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SHORTY
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.
RUBYURL
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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.
KISSA BE (updated)
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
URLI CA
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.
BROKEN SCRIPT
BrokenScript is a URL shortening service that allows you to shorten long Internet addresses for easy reference.
URL SHORT
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.
TRIM
The tr.im website for URL creation, account management and statistics presentation. more than just a tinyurl.
LILURL
LILURL is a simple PHP/MySQL script for short URLs. It’s similar to TinyURL,
YOURLS (Favorite)
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.
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Awesome collection buddy. Keep up the good work
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Shorten is a open source url shortening app build with asp.net mvc
http://shorten.codeplex.com/
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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!
http://rod.gs es otro más!
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wow….great
Sweet list dude, now for a short domain name!
Nice list, by the way I hope you will include mine.
http://y-url.net/
The other one is coming is 8url.us
Thanks..
Wow, awesome list. It will be very usefull for my twitter posts linking to my portofolio,
Thank you.
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an awesome list on url shortening i know only few of them thanks for providing such useful infromation
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
URLI.CA is a good script, but it has a stupid bug, it doesn’t support hyphen domain name. e.g. google-yahoo.com
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.
thanks, goods scripts
Another great resource, thanks.
nice post. I was looking for one short URL script. I have downloaded and installed yourls after reviewing your blog
http://Paidly.com allows you to create a short URL that can be effectively used instead of a long URL.
There is also the open-source php tool based on the symfony framework : http://xav.cc
The source is available at https://opensource.lacot.org/xav.cc/svn/trunk/
Try My Url Shortener !
http://yyuq.com
http://uk38.com
Possibility to use your own custom keyword ex ( yyuq.com/lawyers , uk38.com/youtube … )
track the visitor of your link with acurate country stats .
thank for link
That’s really impressive. Thanks for this great article for URL Shortening!
Great scripts thank you!!
Have been looking for URl shortening scripts for starting this service for my site visitors.
Thanks a lot for a wonderful collection of resources. Will try some of these scripts I find interesting and try to post a feedback on my blog and here as well. Thanks
thanks for this topic
but google hate short link adsense !
Cutter urls that includes statistics: http://xo.pe
Good, Thanks a lot.. I like tinyurl, Because i want my custom url.. cheersssss
i want to add openurl script on my website webitbgroup.com please send me openurl script.
thanks for sharing.. nice shortening script
Nice list, by the way I hope you will include mine.
an awesome list on url shortening i know only few of them thanks for providing such useful infromation
Interesting info … thanks …
Great list, but i’m how a commom user, i use http://ovy.in cause is clean and faster
Does anyone have the download for TR.IM, the download link does not work.
Really a good list ! I have tried urls hort and i am quite satisfied with this app…..:-)
Great Thanks for your sharing
i’ll try to create its now
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