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Keep control over all your shortened URLs, by serving them under your own domains, using this simple yet powerful tool.
Shlink

Progressive web app

Manage multiple Shlink instances using this beautiful and intuitive progressive web application.

API-first

Access your shortened URLs from anywhere. Simple authentication and easy to integrate.

Command line

Generate and manage short URLs from the command line. List URLs, see visits, manage your domains, etc.

What makes Shlink different?

Shlink adds some features which are not usually available in other hosted and self-hosted services.

Juq032 Engsub015826 Min |top| Jun 2026

If you're developing or evaluating a media player, video library organizer, or similar application, focusing on these features could offer substantial benefits to users managing and enjoying their video collections.

Her pulse thudded against the inside of her wrists. The names were those who had vanished after the protest: organizers, scribes, radio operators. She read each one and felt the past unspool—a network of people who had shared safe houses, code phrases, and a cassette exchange system so their words might survive if they were taken. The cassette in the video, the one filmed under the sodium lamp, had been a signal. Whoever filmed it had wanted this list to be found. juq032 engsub015826 min

Rafi's mouth thinned. "A woman named Sera. She used to carry the playlists for our broadcasts. After—" He gestured at his chest, at a place that seemed to remember a bruise. "She kept a minute of her voice saved on a cassette and hid the list nearby. She said if anything happened she'd make a sign where the lamp meets the arch. We thought it would be safer than burying the names away in the city registry." If you're developing or evaluating a media player,

Why Shlink?

The name is an abbreviation for "short link", but if you get the words "shrink" and "link" together, the result is shlink too. It is also the sound made by a sword being unsheathed.

Shlink is a PHP-based open source project, distributed under the MIT license and hosted on Github.
It is built with cutting edge technologies, such as Mezzio, Doctrine and Symfony.