Audience

Individuals, companies and anyone searching for a self-hosted URL shortening solution

About Polr

Polr is a quick, modern, and open-source link shortener. It allows you to host your own URL shortener, to brand your URLs, and to gain control over your data. It's also GPLv2+ licensed. Read the installation documentation and get running in no time. Modern and simple interface to manage your links and control your instance. Run-on your own domain to adjust your branding to perfection. Use Polr out of the box or fork the code to tweak it to to your needs. Customize your instance's shortening permissions, redirects, or even its theme. Semantic REST API for integration with other services. Assign new API keys to users automatically, or generate them manually. Create new links or look up existing links without modifying your breaking your existing code. Certain features, such as user deletion and password changing are disabled on the demo instance. Use the demo instance to test the API, the interface, or the admin panel.

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Integrations

API:
Yes, Polr offers API access
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Ratings/Reviews - 2 User Reviews

Overall 4.5 / 5
ease 4.5 / 5
features 4.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
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Company Information

Chaoyi Zha
Founded: 2013
United States
polrproject.org

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Product Details

Platforms Supported
SaaS
On-Premises
Training
Documentation
Live Online
Support
Online

Polr Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Polr work with?
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Polr Product Features

Link Management Tools

Brand Control
URL Shortener
Backlink Management
Broken Link Discovery
Campaign Management
Channel Attribution
Competitor Analysis
Link Analytics
Partner Management
Ranking Monitoring
Retargeting

Polr Reviews

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  • ANURAG S.
    Marketing Analyst
    Used the software for: 6-12 Months
    Frequency of Use: Monthly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 100 - 499
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    "Ultimate Link Shortening Solution"

    Edited 2020-07-07

    Pros: Polr is self hosted Link shortening software. It is a light weight web program which can be integrated with any domain to create short links. It gives the flexibility of customized branded links.

    Cons: Polr is great web app for link shortening. However, there is no analytics involved, If you just want to short the link and don't care much for analytics, you should go blindly for it.

    Overall: Polr is a great self hosted web app. It is very clean and simple to use program which carters all your need related to link shortening with choice of your own domain. It can be easily hosted on any server. I use it to create short links of our products and use it for marketing campaign. It has very simple and clean interface. It allow the customization of Instances, Redirections, Themes etc. It provide complete installation/API guide and knowledge base .

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  • Kunal R.
    Manager
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 26 - 99
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Personal Url shortener "

    Edited 2020-06-30

    Pros: Polr gives complete control to your links. It gives you a personal URL shortener hosted on your domain. Complete customization can be done. The user interface is simple.

    Cons: No analytical data provided. Complete set up requires professional experience.

    Overall: Polr is a complete open-source URL shortener platform. It makes my own domain URL shortened and gives me complete control of my links. It is very beneficial to share the brand URL in the marketing platform.

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