Lightweight URL shortener (API-only) with minimal resource requirements.

Highly performant: 11k req/sec, latency 11ms, 40MiB avg memory usage (100k requests using 125 connections, benchmark).

Self-hosted: Dokku, Docker Compose.

Images available on Docker Hub.

Why bit?

It is feature-complete by design: simple and reliable without unnecessary bloat. Bug fixes will continue, but new features aren't planned.

• Minimal tracking setup: Country, browser, OS, referer. No cookies or persistent tracking mechanisms are used beyond what's available from a basic client's request.
• Includes X-Forwarded-For header.
• Multiple users are supported via API key authentication. Users can create, list and delete keys via the CLI.
• Easy to extend, Ruby on Rails-inspired setup.

Recommented requirements

• 100MB disk space
• 100MiB RAM
• x86_64 or ARM64

Documentation

• API Reference
• Setup

Contributing

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