ScissorLink
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What it does
- Admin dashboard
- Its React admin interface supports link creation, editing, deletion, search, filtering, and pagination.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Analytics
- The dashboard reports click counts, visitor countries, operating systems, browsers, and visit timing.checked 13 Oct 2026
- API
- Documented API endpoints support link listing, retrieval, creation, updating, deletion, publish toggling, and redirects with analytics tracking.checked 13 Oct 2026
- API access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Bulk link creation
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Bulk use
- The README describes bulk operations for handling thousands of links efficiently.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Custom links
- Users can provide a custom token or have one generated automatically.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The project documents production builds and a Docker deployment example for its backend.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The README identifies MaxMind GeoIP2 for geolocation and lists React, Material-UI, Entity Framework, and SQL Server in the technology stack.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The README presents the software as an enterprise-grade URL shortener and provides self-hosting and development setup instructions.checked 13 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository says the project is licensed under the MIT License.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Limits
- The README lists custom domains, QR codes, password-protected links, webhooks, and email reporting as roadmap items.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Link controls
- Links can be managed through CRUD operations and toggled between published and unpublished states.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Link management
- It supports custom or automatically generated short tokens, draft and publish controls, and bulk operations.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Open source
- The project is licensed under the MIT License.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Product
- ScissorLink is an open-source URL shortener built with .NET 9 and React.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- ScissorLink shortens long URLs into trackable links with an admin interface and analytics.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Requirements
- Self-hosting requires .NET SDK 9.0+, Node.js 18.0+, and SQL Server 2016+.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Security
- Documented safeguards include URL validation, token sanitization, parameterized queries, configurable CORS, HTTPS enforcement, and safe error messages.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project directs users to its README and code comments, GitHub Issues, and GitHub Discussions for help.checked 13 Oct 2026
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