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+[URL shortening](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening) is the action of shortening a [URL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page.
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 Before hosting one, please see [shortcomings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening#Shortcomings) of URL shorteners.
 
 - [Blink](https://docs.blink.rest) - Easy-to-host, SSO-integrated, CDN-powered link shortener (+decoupled analytics) for teams. ([Source Code](https://github.com/JaneJeon/blink)) `AGPL-3.0` `Nodejs`