clink
A super-minimal link shortening service written in pure C, focusing on small executable size, portability, and ease of configuration.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Sep 2025.
Comparisons in URL Shorteners: Bitly alternatives.
At a glance
clink quick facts
- Health score
- 10/100 STALE
- Stars
- 0
- Last commit
- 1.1 years ago (Sep 2025)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
clink scores 10/100, #11 of 11 in URL Shorteners: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 0 stars add 0.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the git.crueter.xyz API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 0.0 / 20
0 stars on git.crueter.xyz (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 0
- Last 12 months
- 1.1 years ago
- Last push
Ranked #11 of 11 tools in URL Shorteners by health , just below Simple-URL-Shortener (#10) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | C |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 0 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | git.crueter.xyz/crueter/clink ↗ |
clink vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with clink (URL Shorteners), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shlink | 95 | 5.4k | MIT | 6 days ago |
| Chhoto URL | 92 | 996 | MIT | today |
| snowshare | 88 | 91 | CC0-1.0 | 2 days ago |
| Flink | 45 | 20 | MIT | 5 months ago |
| rs-short | 35 | 5 | MPL-2.0 | 5 months ago |
| clink (this tool) | 10 | 0 | AGPL-3.0 | 1.1 years ago |
clink: common questions
Is clink still maintained?
clink had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 1.1 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.