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Polr

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Like everything else here, Polr is an open source and self-hostable web application. It's a fast and simple URL shortener with a robust API for using with command line applications.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
  • Apache HTTP Server
  • PHP
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    akhlis added Polr as alternative to Weaveen
    14 days ago
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    UniqueGo added Polr as alternative to linkto.eu
    20 days ago
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    POX added Polr as alternative to Flink URL Shortener
    27 days ago
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    Shlnk added Polr as alternative to SHLNK.IN
    about 1 month ago
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    OpenSourceSoftware added Polr as alternative to Linklog
    about 1 month ago
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    c17s5qhu added Polr as alternative to Gull
    about 1 month ago
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    Occuz added Polr as alternative to Occuz
    about 2 months ago
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    jarne added Polr as alternative to Toohga
    about 2 months ago
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    OpenSourceSoftware added Polr as alternative to ShortenMyURL
    about 2 months ago
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    timothy-unfurly added Polr as alternative to Unfur.ly
    about 2 months ago
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Polr information

  • Developed by

    Unknown
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
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  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.2
  • Alternatives

    132 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  5,066 Stars
  •  899 Forks
  •  211 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 28, 2024 
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Polr, and it has gotten 78 likes

Polr was added to AlternativeTo by cydrobolt on Nov 9, 2014 and this page was last updated Dec 11, 2024.

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Top Negative Comment
Duncan Briggs
Jul 31, 2018
-2

"Due to abuse, the Polr demo does not redirect to external URLs."

KGDO_com
Dec 18, 2022
2

NOTES:

  • The original project appears to be discontinued. The Github hasn't been updated since early 2021 (github account cydrobolt)
  • A fork is being actively maintained and updated (github account Antelope-Valley-College). The dev wrote at the original Polr Github on 16 Dec. 2022, under issue #626: "Shameless plug [for Antelope-Valley-College/polr]: I've implemented SAML and PHP 8 support in our fork for the community college I work for. Because it's critical to daily business processes, I suspect we will keep maintaining it."
  • Polr.me -- online service, discontinued; mentioned here by @croadsmouth; NOT THE SAME as the self-hosted versions
afredy
Apr 29, 2020
-5

bad bad bad bad very bad

Sharif
Aug 29, 2019
2

There is no tracking for the links Like Track the total of clicks or statistics.

croadsmouth
Dec 12, 2017
3

Very sad to see one of the best open source URL shorteners taken down :(( Luckily Porl project remains unaffected and for example 1n.pm LinkShortener is based on that and the feel is very similar :)

12 December 2017, 13:03 from porl.me site:

"polr.me is in the process of shutting down its services, effective immediately

Regretfully, we here at the Polr Project have decided to shut down the public URL shortener hosted at polr.me, effective immediately.

In the past few months, we have encountered a large influx of abusive links and harmful bots; however, following numerous attempts to reduce the amount of spam links flowing thorugh polr.me, we have not been successful at stopping the flow of phishing and malware links.

In addition, our previous host, OpenShift, has discontinued their previous service, which polr.me was hosted on. As a result, we moved to a different host in order to continue offering the service; however, the high traffic that polr.me receives leads to a cost which is not inconsequential. After numerous failed attempts to monetize the service in order to keep server costs down, we've failed.

As a result of the high influx of malicious links, the high traffic that they've generated, and the shutdown of our previous host, we've decided to terminate the public polr.me service. The Polr Project's open source platform, Polr, will not be affected.

polr.me links will continue redirecting until January 9th, 2018. At that point, an archive of public links will be available for download for those who are interested.

Thank you for understanding"

[Edited by croadsmouth, December 12]

KGDO_com
Dec 18, 2022

Highlight: "The Polr Project's open source platform, Polr, will not be affected."

This announcement in 2017 was about Polr.me, an online service that the Polr devs were ending. They maintained the self-hosted version until early 2021.

However, a fork is in active development at Github account Antelope-Valley-College by Github dev mwilmes-at-avc.

What is Polr?

An open source URL shortener. A great non-profit and free alternative to bit.ly, TinyURL, or goo.gl.

It has a modern look, themes, user admin panels, and you can even host it yourself. Similar to products like YOURLS, Polr can be hosted yourself. If you have a PHP server, you can have your own instance. It has many more features than YOURLS, and is constantly being developed.

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