Through different access rights settings, the service can be made public or kept private.
It comes with its own API.
Here are some key features of "YOURLS":
· Public (everybody can create short links) or private (your links only)
· Sequential or custom URL keyword
· Handy bookmarklet to easily shorten and share links
· Awesome stats: historical click reports, referrers tracking, visitors geo-location
· Neat AJAXed interface
· Developer API
· Friendly installer
Requirements:
· PHP 4.3 or higher
· MySQL 4.1 or higher
· mod_rewrite enabled
· cURL
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Added:
· Plugin architecture
· Directory /user, config.php can be moved there
· New "instant bookmarklets"
· 1 click copy-to-clipboard a la bitly
· Saving URL titles
· Support for prefix-n-shorten: sho.rt/http://example.com/
· Core plugin to allow hyphens in URLs
· Core sample plugin to wrap redirected URLs in a social toolbar
· Core sample plugin to show how to create administration page in plugins
· Core plugin to display a random pretty background
· Anti XSS and anti CSRF measures
· Interactive map if possible in stat traffic by countries
Changed:
· Layout now using a more consistent palette, see http://yourls.org/palette
· Change in logic, now all request are handled by PHP and don't rely on .htaccess
Fixed:
· Lots of bugs