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Flink URL Shortener icon

Flink URL Shortener

Flink is a simple, free, libre, and open source URL shortener built with love and an ASP.NET Core 8 Web API. Why yet another URL shortener, you might ask yourself? Well, because Flink has a unique feature set, and demands around scalability, simplicity, security, and...

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

Platforms

  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Mac
  • Docker
  • Self-Hosted
  • Online  Multiple instances.
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  1.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Integrated Spam Protection
  2.  QR Code Generator

 Tags

  • prometheus
  • link-preview

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Flink URL Shortener information

  • Developed by

    US flagrtrace.io
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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What is Flink URL Shortener?

Flink is a simple, free, libre, and open source URL shortener built with love and an ASP.NET Core 8 Web API. Why yet another URL shortener, you might ask yourself? Well, because Flink has a unique feature set, and demands around scalability, simplicity, security, and traceability that no other URL shortener was able to fulfil.

Features:

  • Get a production-grade Flink instance up and running in less than 1 minute
  • Easy generation of QR Codes for shortened links
  • Generate link previews that are embeddable as iframe
  • Batch short link creation from your terminal (using curl, wget or any other board util)
  • Swagger (OpenAPI) interface allowing you to build on top of Flink
  • Runs on Linux, Windows, Mac
  • Deployable as container (Podman and Docker), support for Kubernetes
  • Keep track of how often short links are visited through built-in Prometheus support
  • Simple default-theme, with the possibility to create custom themes
  • Spam-protection
  • Supports SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB/MySQL

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