Shlink is an open-source self-hosted URL shortener, which allows you to shorten URLs and serve them under your own short domain. Using your own URL shortner service instead of third-party service like bit.ly can increase brand awareness. This tutorial will be showing you how to install Shlink on Ubuntu 20.04 with Apache or Nginx web server.
Shlink Features
- Visit stats: Track all the visits to your short URLs, including stats like location, browser or referrer.
- Email tracking: Generate a 1px transparent image that can be used to track emails.
- Third party integrations: Easily make third party tools use shlink to shorten URLs by using a single-request API endpoint.
- Custom Slugs: Make your shortened URLs use a custom slug to easily identify campaigns.
- QR codes: Generate QR codes on the fly pointing to your short URLs
- Previews: Get previews in image format for any short URL
- Tags: Tag your short URLs and classify them for later analytics
- Limited access: Limit access to short URLs, by date range and/or maximum number of visits.
- Third-party imports: Import your existing short URLs from third parties like bit.ly.
- Command-line and web interface.
Read full tutorial here: https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/install-shlink-url-shortener-ubuntu-20-04-server
