This project was quickly made in just a day or two, and i wasnt planning on maintaining it. What now? Currently i am working on exist, a sleek, modern and minimal private url shortener.
I know it isnt the exact same thing, but cmon, if you need a public url, bitly was always the best option.
A simple url shortener thats not yet another bitly wrapper
- Actual URL shortening using sqlite
- Seperated links and homepage ports, to allow for binding to 2 different domains (like homepage on bitly.com and links on bit.ly)
- A clean and minimal frontend
- Instant setup using docker
There is a live demo hosted publicly at https://kiln.ch0.dev.
Note: The homepage binds to port 8080 by default and the urls bind to port 8081 by default.
You can also host it yourself using docker:
docker pull cheetahdoesstuff/kiln
docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 8081:8081 \
-e LINK_HOST="your url host" \
-e MAIN_HOST="your main host" \
cheetahdoesstuff/kilnWhere LINK_HOST is the domain the the urls are on (eg l.ch0.dev) and MAIN_HOST is the domain the homepage is on (eg kiln.ch0.dev).
You can then verify the container is running using:
docker ps- Rust
- Axum
- Sqlite
- tailwind CSS & HTML/JS
This project is dual-licensed under the MIT and APACHE licenses.
You are always welcome to contribute to the project! But your contribution must follow the following guidelines:
- No code shall be generated or written by AI
- No code shall be harmful in any way to the host or users of the project, nor the developers.
- No code shall be written for the benefit of the contributor, such as monetization or ads.
- Code shall be properly formatted using cargo fmt, and shall not raise any warnings from clippy.
- The code must be fully functional and not break any part of the codebase.
With those guidelines in place, happy contributing!
Note: for the auth to work you must have a .env file with the same environment values as the docker command above at the selfhosting section.