URL Shortener & QR Code Generator - QuickLink

Instantly Create short URLs & a QR code of your current tab.

What is URL Shortener & QR Code Generator - QuickLink?

"URL Shortener & QR Code Generator - QuickLink" is a Chrome extension that offers a swift and privacy-conscious method to shorten URLs and create QR codes for the current webpage. With no clicks required for generating short links, an optional context menu, and customizable popup features, QuickLink streamlines the process of link sharing. The QR code generation is offline, enhancing user privacy, and the extension uses the Is.gd API for URL shortening without gathering personal data. It includes history and stats for your short URLs and features icons by HeroIcons. QuickLink ensures efficient, secure web sharing with minimal fuss.

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By: Tim Peters

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Users: 9,000+

Rating: 3.70 (10)

Version: 2.3 (Last updated: 2024-02-15)

Creation date: 2020-03-06

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

activeTab
storage

Host permissions:

https://is.gd/

Size: 1.21M

Email: ti*****@timpeters.net

Ranking

# 11157 ▼ 110

Other rankings

#731 in Workflow & Planning #10 in url shortener keyword 45 #87 in qr code keyword 63 ▲ 22

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Extension summary

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Quickly and easily create short URLs or generate a QR code for the website you are on. You can copy or save the QR code by right-clicking on it.

Creating short URLs can be done with 0 clicks in the extension, and can also be done through a context menu (right click).

The layout of the popup highly customizable! You can choose to disable/enable any feature you want! You can also view your history of short URLs and can view the link statistics!

Unlike other URL shortener extensions, there is no need for any extra permissions! We take your privacy into consideration by keeping everything we can offline.

We do not need access to any of your data and the QR code is generated offline using an open-source JavaScript library.

The short URLs are created using Is.gd API (this is the only thing done over the network), but no personal data is collected by us.

Icons by HeroIcons https://github.com/davidshimjs/qrcodejs

User reviews

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Pros

Fast and easy to use
Creates bit.ly links effectively
Works well for generating QR codes
Generally reliable performance

Cons

Inability to track links created from within the extension as they are not linked to the user's own bit.ly account
Issues with short URLs being rejected
Problems with generating QR codes for certain URLs

Most mentioned

Fast and easy to use
Creates bit.ly links
Tracking and link customization issues

Recent reviews

I simply cant imagine a better one :-)

Agron Dida, 2023-02-28

Unable to use because the target URL is too short (3 letter domain name). Error says, "The usage of short url services is not allow, please open the short url and copy the target url." The plugin apparently thinks the target is already shortened.