rs-short
Lightweight link shortener written in Rust, with features such as caching, spambot protection and phishing detection.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Jun 2026.
Comparisons in URL Shorteners: Bitly alternatives.
At a glance
rs-short quick facts
- Health score
- 35/100 STALE
- Stars
- 5
- Last commit
- 5 months ago (Jun 2026)
- Latest release
- 3.3.1, Feb 2026
- Licence
- MPL-2.0
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
rs-short scores 35/100, #9 of 11 in URL Shorteners: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (3.3.1, 8 months ago) earns 21.6 of 25, 5 stars add 3.1 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.42l.fr API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 21.6 / 25
3.3.1 released 8 months ago
- Stars 3.1 / 20
5 stars on git.42l.fr (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 1
- Last 12 months
- 5 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #9 of 11 tools in URL Shorteners by health , between Flink (#8) and Simple-URL-Shortener (#10) .
Details
| Licence | MPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | Rust |
| Latest release | 3.3.1 · 8 months ago |
| Stars | 5 |
| Open issues | 6 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | git.42l.fr/42l/rs-short ↗ |
rs-short vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with rs-short (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 |
| YOURLS | 84 | 12k | MIT | 3 days ago |
| rs-short (this tool) | 35 | 5 | MPL-2.0 | 5 months ago |
| clink | 10 | 0 | AGPL-3.0 | 1.1 years ago |
rs-short: common questions
Is rs-short still maintained?
rs-short had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 5 months ago; the latest tagged release, 3.3.1, is from 8 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.