7 Open Source And Free URL Shortener Scripts
URL shortening services, with the popularity of Twitter, has a very wide usage, probably more than anyone had expected few years ago.These services not only makes URLs shorter but more readable & trackable. Also, some offer features like password-protecting, custom URLs & more.
Here are 7 open source & free URL shortener scripts to create your own:
Shorty is a free URL shortener script built with PHP & MySQL. It comes with an admin interface where links can be edited/deleted & number of clicks can be viewed.
It is a set of PHP scripts for running a custom URL shortening service.
It can be private or public, custom keyword URLs can be picked, counts clicks & has an API. Best of all, a WordPress plugin integrates it with your blog & links are shortened automatically.
This short URL script has support to shorten various inputs:
- URL
- text
- image
It is built with PHP/MySQL & has an API for shortening/expanding URLs.
PHPurl is a simple script to shorten URLs. Optionally, custom URLs can be defined for more readable links. The script is created with PHP & MySQL.
This is a basic URL shortening script where a custom info is required to generate the URL.
TightURL is a PHP/MySQL script which has a nice spam control feature. It checks entries in various spam databases before shortening them.
phurl
The script has a captcha & re-captcha support to prevent bots. It also comes with a basic admin interface which enables deleting URLs.
