# Shlink

> Unofficial Shlink extension for Firefox

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/shlink](https://chrome-stats.com/d/shlink)

## Overview

- **ID:** `shlink`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Edward Shen
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 39
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.6.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-04-20
- **First published:** 2020-09-19
- **Size:** 108 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/shlink/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/edward-shen/shlink](https://github.com/edward-shen/shlink)

## Description

Shlink is an unofficial Firefox add-on that provides a shortcut button to generate short URLs using Shlink, a self-hosted link shortening service. You will need to run your own instance of Shlink for this extension to function. Once installed and configured, a short link can be requested from your Shlink instance for the current page, which will be copied to the clipboard.

## Rankings

- #18,083 — Overall
- #165 — broken links

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `offscreen`
- `notifications`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/shlink)