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A curated list of awesome things related to YOURLS

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Official material from the YOURLS team

Official tools from the YOURLS team

Plugins

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All known plugins, from the community or the YOURLS team

Legend:

  • ☑️ : plugin authored by a member of the YOURLS teams
  • 🧪 : plugins featuring their own unit tests to ensure expected functionality, as well as present and future compatibility, with YOURLS

Currently we have 225 plugins listed.

Willing to get your plugins featured here? Please contribute!

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0-9

  • 2fa Support - Adds 2FA support to YOURLS.
  • 302-Instead - Send a 302 (temporary) redirect instead of 301 (permanent), for sites where shortlinks may change.
  • 302-Instead - A fork of previous plugin, with some more options.
  • 404 If Not Found ☑️ - Give a 404 Not Found if the short URL is not found.

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A

  • AAF Rapid Connect auth - AAF Rapid Connect authentication plugin for YOURLS.
  • Abuse Desk for YOURLS - A Google Safe Browsing implementation for YOURLS to avoid spam links.
  • Access Control Allow Origin - Prevents CORS issue with domain CNAMES and aliases for admin actions.
  • Additional Charsets - Define additional character sets for short URLs.
  • Admin Issue Diagnostic - A.I.D. - Collects YOURLS environmentals and formats a template to copy/paste into a YOURLS issue.
  • Admin NoReCAPTCHA - Protect logins with Google's No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA (Google's ReCAPTCHA v2.0).
  • Admin reCaptcha - Spam protection for private YOURLS admin interface with reCaptcha.
  • Admin reCaptcha v3 - Protect Admin login with reCaptcha v3.
  • Admin Turnstile - Protect Admin login with Cloudflare Turnstile!
  • Advanced Reserved URLs - Extends the reserved word functionality, blocking short URLs containing reserved words, even if mixed case or written in leetspeak.
  • Allow Aliases - Allow YOURLS to work with alias hostnames for the server.
  • Allow Existing URLs - Have YOURLs return success when shortening an existing URL with YOURLS_UNIQUE_URLS=true.
  • Allow Forward Slashes in Short URLs - Just as the name says.
  • Allow Full Stops in Short URLs - This plugin will allow full stops . in keywords when shortening URLS.
  • Always-302 - A newer alternative to 302-Instead.
  • Amazon Affiliate - Adds your Amazon Affiliate Tag to all Amazon URLs before redirection.
  • Amazon Affiliate With Notice - Adds your Amazon Affiliate Tag to all Amazon URLs before redirection with a notice of Amazon Affiliate link usage.
  • Anonymise - Anonymise the log data that YOURLS captures.
  • Antispam ☑️ - Antispam plugin using the major DNS blacklists.
  • YOURLS APC Cache - Add support for APC to reduce MySQL queries.
  • API Action ☑️ - Example plugin for YOURLS 1.6+ to show how to implement custom API actions.
  • API Contract - API action opposite to "expand": check if a URL has been shortened before
  • API Delete - Add a "delete" action to the API.
  • API Edit URL - Add an "update" action to the API to edit a URL, and a "geturl" action to get the long URL of a short URL.
  • API List All - Add a "list" action to the API to show all keywords.
  • API List All + URLs - Add a "list" action to the API to show all keywords & URLs. This is a fork of the previous plugin and therefore incompatible with it.
  • API List Extended - Add a "list" action to the API with advanced options, such as shorting, pagination and field selection.
  • API ShortUrl Analytics - Add a "shorturl_analytics" action to the API to get the statistics of a specific shortURL in a range of dates.
  • Append Query String - Appends the query string to a long URL.
  • Auth Manager Plus - Seperates user data & manages authorization with role-based access controls (RBAC).
  • Auto Login ☑️ - Automatically populate login/password with test/test (for test installs).

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B

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C

  • cAuth - Client side SSL certificate authentication for admin pages.
  • Cache Stat Pages ☑️ - Serve stat pages (http://sho.rt/blah+) from cache.
  • Caching Disabled for Redirects ☑️ - Send no-cache headers with shorturl redirects.
  • CAS Plugin - Enable authentication through a CAS server.
  • Case Insensitive - Makes all keywords case insensitive (creates and calls all keywords lowercase).
  • Case Insensitive - Make YOURLS case insensitive: if you create http://sho.rt/MyLink, then variations like mylink or MYLINK will redirect to the same URL.
  • Case Insensitive YOURLS - Makes YOURLS case insensitive, for 1.9+.
  • Change Error Messages - Changes the error message when a keyword or URL already exists and displays the long URL.
  • YOURLS GWall Change Logo - Allows you to change the image of the YOURLS logo and its alt and title tags.
  • YOURLS GWall Change Title - Allows you to change the title of the YOURLS website (the html <title> tag).
  • Change Password ☑️ - Change your password from within YOURLS instead of editing the config file.
  • Change Password - Allow users to change their password via the administration interface.
  • Check URL - Check if a long URL is reachable before creating a short URL.
  • Compliance - Anti-abuse plugin, designed to address link complaints from 3rd parties.
  • Conditional Toolbar ☑️ - A plugin to conditionally enable the toolbar: http://sho.rt/blah for normal redirect, http://sho.rt/tb/blah for a toolbar.
  • Conditional Advertisements - A plugin to conditionally send links through various link monetizing services: http://your.site/short is normal, http://your.site/a/short redirects through AdFly.
  • Custom Header & Footer - A plugin administration page to add custom header and footer style and content.
  • Custom Javascript - Add custom javascript to admin pages.
  • Custom Number of Displayed Links ☑️ - Change the default number of links per page, if 15 isn't your taste.
  • Custom Protocol ☑️ - If the user is known, this plugin adds custom protocol (eg blah://) to authorized protocols, otherwise restricts to http|s.

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D

  • Device Details - Display click details, including IP, user-agent, device information, and more.
  • Device Charts - Display charts showcasing information about browsers, platforms, and devices used by visitors.
  • Disable JSONP - Disables JSONP access for the YOURLS API.
  • DNSBL - Uses various DNSBLs to check the submitter's IP and prevent shortening URLs if any malicious activity has been detected.
  • Domain Limit - Limit the domains that users can create shortlinks to.
  • Domain Limiter - Fork of Nic Waller's plugin with the addition of an admin panel to edit the white list from the admin area.
  • Do TLS - Always use SSL/TLS for a destination url if available.
  • Don't Log Bots ☑️ - Ignore bot hits in your stats (both click count as seen in the main admin page and in detailed stats).
  • Don't Log Crawlers - A fork of the Don't Log Bots, with more bots filtered out.
  • Don't Log Health Checker - A fork of Don't Log Bots, with more bots filtered out.
  • Don't Track Admin Clicks ☑️🧪 - Don't count clicks on short URL if user is logged in.
  • Download Plugin - Download and install YOURLS plugins from the admin panel.

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E

  • Edition Logger - Logs to a file every url insertion, deletion, or modification, to provide traceability of users' actions allowing an open edition policy.
  • Emojis - Create an emoji-only short link, like http://sho.rt/✨ or http://sho.rt/😎🆒🔗
  • Enhanced Auth Cookies ☑️ - Enhances the cookie based authentication, making each auth cookie name unique and time based.
  • Every Click Counts - Click count include multiple clicks for the same client (ie there will be no browser caching of the redirection).
  • Expiry - Defines optional conditions under which links will expire, able to set time and click limited links globally or per individual links.

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F

  • Fallback URL - Redirect to a custom URL when the short URL does not exist.
  • Fancy Animals Short Urls - Plugin to create cool short URLS like https://sho.rt/SwiftCrimsonBullfrog
  • Fancy Pokemon Short Urls - Plugin to create cool short URLS like https://sho.rt/QuirkyHisuianNuzleaf
  • Favicon ☑️ - Properly displayed favicon in all cases (home screen on iOS, Android, Chrome, Safari...).
  • Filter Code - Allow to select 3XX Status Code to return per keyword.
  • Fix long URLs - Fix long URLs that contain %20 and other similar encodings.
  • Fix Youtube titles ☑️ - Get correct video title, not "Before you continue to YouTube"
  • Force Lowercase ☑️ - Force lowercase so http://sho.rt/ABChttp://sho.rt/abc.
  • Forward Query Strings - Forwards query params to the destination URL. Can exclude params by domain.
  • Fuzzy Keyword Suggestions - Handles typos and other "near-misses" for any shortened link (eg if you have sho.rt/dh1ik but someone types sho.rt/dhlik, the 404 page will show suggestions for similar short URLs).

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G

  • GA MP - Track YOURLS link clicks with Google Analytics Measurement protocol in Real Time.
  • Git Version - Add version information from the git repository into the footer of the admin page.
  • Geo API - Plugin to look up country code from another 3rd party API (geoiplookup.net).
  • GeoIP Update ☑️ - Update the GeoIP database
  • GeoShortURL - Plugin to add per-country support to existing short URLs (use it with 302-Instead).
  • Google Analytics Link Tagging - Add GA tags (utm_source and others) to your shortened links.
  • Google Auth - Enables Google Authentication for YOURLS.
  • Google Safe Browsing ☑️:test_tube: - Check every new URL against Google's Safe Browsing Lookup service.
  • GTM for YOURLS - Google Tag Manager for every single click.

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H

  • hexdec - Changes the sequential keywords from base36 to base16 (ie [0-9a-f]).
  • Hide Referrer - Hide referrer on all or some short links.
  • Hide Version String - Hide the version string in the footer.
  • HTTP:BL - Prevent spam using the black list from Project Honeypot.
  • HTTP Proxy - Get remote content using an HTTP proxy, for instance when YOURLS is running behind a firewall (e.g. corporate intranet).
  • HTTP status per link - Select 3XX Status Code to return per keyword.

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I

  • Identi.ca for YOURLS - Share YOURLS links via identi.ca.
  • YOURLS IDN ☑️ - Add IDN support to YOURLS.
  • Image Placeholder ☑️ - Simple image placeholder service for YOURLS.
  • YOURLS Import Export - A plugin to import and export YOURLS URL.
  • Integrated QRCodes - Integrated QRCodes is an updated fork of Inline QRCode, but more compact, configurable, and just as efficient with more features.
  • Insert Fake Links ☑️ - Insert fake links (for test installs)
  • iOS URL - Adds support for URLs starting with itms-apps:// and itms-services://.
  • IP Click Detail - Shows click level IP address detail and User Agent, Referrer
  • iTunes-Affiliate - Adds your iTunes Affiliate-Token to all iTunes URLs before redirection.

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J

  • Jappix - Adds a JappixMini chat on your YOURLS admin pages.
  • JSON Response - Add .json (or a custom string/character) to the short URL to get info about it as a JSON response.

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K

  • Keep Query String - Adds the short URL's query string (if any) to the long URL.
  • Keywords, Charset & Length - Custom charset, custom link length and random short urls, all in one plugin, with an admin panel.
  • Keyword Limiter - Add several conditions to check whether submitted keyword is allowed or not.
  • Keyword not found - If keyword isn't found in the database, redirect to admin page and pre-populate the short URL field.
  • Keyword Prefix - Adds a defined prefix to your short URLs.

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L

  • LDAP - Enables use of LDAP for user authentication.
  • Link Anonymizer - Generate a link that will take you to an anonymizer service.
  • Link List - List recent links added, in the admin interface or on a public page.
  • Limit Custom Keyword Length (Min & Max Characters) - This plugin limits the minimum and maximum number of characters for custom keyword.
  • Limit keyword length - This plugin limits the number of characters allowed for the custom keyword.
  • Limit keyword length - This plugin defines the minimal amount of characters for the custom keyword.
  • Limited Links ☑️ -limit the number of redirections of a specific link.
  • log-login - Logs login atempts to YOURLS. To be used with fail2ban.
  • Login Timeout - Adds a timeout after a certain number of failed logins to mitigate brute force logins.
  • Lookup keywords by long URL substring - Add a "lookup-url-substr" action to YOURLS API which searches keywords by long URL substring (implements url LIKE %substr% SQL operation).
  • lowercase username - Makes the username lowercase when logging in.

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M

  • Mailto - Adds a "mailto:" sharing option, next to Twitter and Facebook.
  • Mailto Bookmarklet - Adds a bookmarklet to share links by mail.
  • Mass Remove Link ☑️ - Remove several links at once. Select by date, date range, IP or URL matching.
  • Mass Update - Adds an API action to mass update links from old_domain to new_domain.
  • md5 salt - Provide backwards compatibility for those still using md5 in their passwordless API calls.
  • Memcached - Memcached plugin for YOURLS.
  • Meta Redirect - Redirect using HTML meta tag when you prepend the short URL with an underscore (eg http://sho.rt/_bleh).
  • Mobile Detect - Add ability to redirect by user device OS.

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N

  • No Traking Admins - No loggin clicks for authenticated users (compatible with OIDC).
  • No URL title ☑️ - Don't fetch long URL titles.
  • No Version Check ☑️ - Stop YOURLS from checking if a new release is available.
  • Notifier - Sends notifications when actions occurs, like creating a new shortened url.

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O

  • OAuth Sign In - Enable OAuth sign in support (using GitLab as an example).
  • OIDC - OpenID Connect authentication against a generic OpenID Connect server.
  • Open Graph Meta Scraper - Get Open Graph (OG) information for your shortened links.
  • Original URL Regex Limiter - Enables to allow and block (original) URLs not just with domain names like related plugins, but with regular expressions for more precise policies.

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P

  • Password Protection - Password protect any Short URL you want so that users are prompted for a password before redirection.
  • Phishtank - Prevent spam links using Phishtank's API.
  • Phishtank 2.0 - Functional rewrite of the old Phishtank plugin with more features.
  • Piwik-YOURLS - Piwik and a few other features.
  • Popular Clicks - Display the top of the most clicked links during past days.
  • Popular Clicks Extended - Shows which short links get clicked the most during a specific time frame.
  • Popular Links - Adds an admin page that displays your shortener's most popular links.
  • Preview URL ☑️ - Add the character '~' to a short URL to display a preview screen before redirection.
  • Preview URL with QR Code - Add the character '~' to a short URL to display a preview screen & QR code before redirection.
  • Preview URL with QR Code And Thumbnail - Add the character '~' to a short URL to display a QR code and Thumbnail image before redirection.
  • Public "Prefix n' Shorten" ☑️ - Redirect http://sho.rt/http://someurl.com/ to a public interface instead of the admin area.
  • YOURLS Pseudonymize - This plugin "pseudonymizes" the IP addresses so that it is in line with the German privacy laws (the last 2 segments/bytes of a visitor's IP address are removed).
  • PUNS - A Plugin Update Notification System: provides a report-generating page and an API with optional email notifications.
  • Purge All Logs - A Plugin that allows you to purges all YOURLS logs

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Q

  • QRCode ☑️ - Add ".qr" to short URLs to display the shorturl's QR code.
  • QRCode - Creates and displays QR Codes within YOURLS.
  • QR Google Charts - Another QR Code plugin, using Google Charts API.
  • QRCode - Another QR Code plugin. Get the QR code by simply clicking on a button in the Admin area (or by adding ".qr" to the end of the keyword).
  • QRCode Local — Add ".qr" to short URLs to display the shorturl's QR code in SVG, PDF, PNG or JPG (local generation with JS).
  • QueryString Forward - Forward the query string on short link to long URL (eg http://sho.rt/kk?a=1 to http://long.url/somepage/?a=1).
  • Query String Keeper - Pass the query string from the shortlink to the long URL (eg http://sho.rt/kk?hey forwards to http://long.url/bleh/?hey).
  • Query String Keeper - Pass the query string from the shortlink to the long URL (tested on YOURLS version 1.8.3 and php version 8.0.12).

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R

  • reCaptcha - YOURLS plugin implementing reCaptcha for unauthenticated users in your public interface.
  • Redirect Index - Redirect the user to another site if they go to the base directory of your YOURLS installation.
  • Referral Link Checkpoint - Add a landing page to let visitors know when it is a referral link.
  • Regenerate URL - Regenerate a new keyword for a URL that has already been shortened.
  • Remove The Share Function - Remove the Share button and box that toggles the sharing options on the Admin page.
  • Remove YouTube Play Indicator - Removes the triangle from the title of Youtube shortened URL.
  • Replace Text - Replace URL or tokens in URL based on keyword, regex pattern matching, or script.
  • Reset URLs ☑️ - Deletes all URLs. For your test install needs.
  • Reverse Proxy - Fixes the user IPs to point to the actual user instead of your cloud provider’s infrastructure IPs (Cloudflare, Heroku...).
  • rscrub - An "HTTP referrer scrubbing swiss army knife for YOURLS" (evolution of the Hide Referrer plugin).

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  • Safe Redirect - A security reminder is displayed before redirecting long links, and custom ads can be inserted on the reminder page.
  • SAML Authentication - Sign in via SAML-based single sign-on.
  • Save By Keyword - API action to update the long URL of an existing keyword, or creates a new short URL.
  • Semantic Scuttle - Allows the sharing of the URL to a Semantic Scuttle installation.
  • Separate Users - Adds a username to each created URL, and filters the admin interface.
  • Shaarli - Allows the sharing of the URL to a Shaarli installation.
  • Share Files - Upload and share files with YOURLS.
  • Share LinkedIn - Adds LinkedIn to the Quick Share Box.
  • Share with Tumblr ☑️ - In the Quick Share box, add a one-click share to Tumblr link.
  • Shibboleth - Enable authentication with Shibboleth.
  • ShortShort - Checks if a URL is already shortened (e.g. t.co, bit.ly, youtu.be) to avoid nested shortened links.
  • Show Git Branch ☑️ - Using YOURLS on a dev box under Git? Show the current branch in page footer.
  • SimpleDB Clickqueue - Queue clicks to Amazon SimpleDB before processing. This allows using a regular MySQL store even in the face of a high frequency of writes, without concern of connection limit overflow. Clicks are inserted later into the database via an import job.
  • Skimlinks - Push all links through Skimlinks to automatically embed affiliate codes.
  • Skip Click Count - Don't count clicks on short URLs.
  • Slack Notifier - Send a notification to a Slack channel whenever a new short URL is created.
  • SMTP Contact - Provides a public contact page using PHPMailer for outbound mail delivery.
  • Snapshot - Visual preview plugin with image caching powered by PhantomJS.
  • YOURLS SQLite ☑️ - SQLite driver for YOURLS. It is now considered outdated.
  • YOURLS SQLite - A fork of the original SQLite driver for YOURLS, actively maintained.
  • Static Titles - Provide two options to avoid the network traffic when retrieving URL titles.
  • SSL for SSL - Generates SSL short links if the original link was SSL.
  • Swap Short URL - A plugin to have http://sho.rt/blah while having YOURLS installed in http://sho.rt/yourls/

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  • Telegram Notifier - Get a notification via Telegram whenever a new shortlink is created.
  • Telegram Quickshare - Quickly share a shortened URL via Telegram Messenger.
  • Title Refetch - Refetch page titles.
  • Timezones ☑️ - Tell YOURLS your time zone and how you'd like times and dates displayed.
  • Thumbnail URL image - Get the Thumbnail URL image (long URL) by adding .i to the end of the keyword.
  • Time-Period Clicks - A simple API plugin for reporting URL clicks in a specific time period (e.g. the last week, January 1 - February 1, etc).
  • Time Limit Link - Set a time limit for links.
  • Track Custom Keyword - Add a new field to YOURLS designed to track if a keyword was randomly assigned or manually specified.
  • Typer, a yourls prank plugin - Add an underscore * to your shortlink and the user will be shown a page where they have to type the shortlink themselves.

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U

  • Upload and Shorten - Upload and share files with YOURLS.
  • U-SRV - Provides secure links to files while obfuscating filesystem paths, allowing easy, secure access to files between plugins or from 3rd party scripts. Manual uploading of files is supported.
  • Update 30X - An API plugin to test single, domain based, or all available links and update the URL in YOURLS if redirection occures at the destination.
  • URL Health Check - Checks submitted URLs for validity, reachability, and redirection. In the case of redirection, the final destination URL will be stored avoiding nested redirects.
  • Users in Database - Reads users from a database table instead of a config file. Currently does not provide an interface for adding/editing users though.

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W

  • wallabag - Allows the sharing of the URL to a Wallabag installation (previously named Poche).
  • Whatsapp quickshare - Allows you to share your short URL via whatsapp.
  • Word Based Short URLs ☑️ - Generate short URLs with adjectives and nouns, like http://sho.rt/FluffyArrogantUnicorn.

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X

  • X-Robots-Tag header ☑️ - Send X-Robots-Tag: index header on redirection, to fine tune your SEO needs.

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Y

  • YA Phish Checker - Prevent spam/phishing links using ipqualityscore's API. Fork of Phishtank-2.0 (+some extra features)
  • YAPCache - YAPCache is an APC based cache designed to reduce the database load of YOURLS and increase performance.
  • YOURS-TN - Display thumbnails on YOURLS admin page and stats page, using thumbnail.ws.
  • YouTube Title Fix - Fetch YouTube page titles via Google API.

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Themes

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This will be the next big thing when YOURLS fully support theming

  • ∞² - Infinity Squared, a beautiful public page theme for YOURLS.
  • Air 66 - A responsive admin theme for YOURLS.
  • Sleeky - A sleek and simple frontend & backend theme for YOURLS with light and dark modes.

Translations

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YOURLS supports localization: this means if a language file for YOURLS in available in your language, YOURLS will speak your language!

Integrations

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Make YOURLS work with other platforms, programming languages or tools.

3rd party platforms

  • Make - Automate actions with YOURLS (eg new blog post -> shorten link -> share on Discord)

3rd party Integrations and Frameworks

Applications

Guides & Tutorials

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Installation guides

Installation guides in other languages

Other tutorials

Showcases

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Sites running YOURLS with a unique design or concept

Celebrity endorsements (sort of)

YOURLS has also been used by the NASA, Virgin and Epic Games. Sweet! 😊

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

CC0