YOURLS

YOURLS (Your Own URL Shortener) is an open‑source PHP application that lets you run your own URL shortening service on a self‑hosted server. It provides a simple web interface, API endpoints for creating, managing, and tracking short URLs, and supports plugins for extending functionality. The project is maintained by the community and offers documentation, a GitHub repository, and a public blog for updates and support.

YOURLS is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, URL-Shortener, Open-Source, PHP, and Self-Hosted.

YOURLS’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, getting-started guide, documentation, engineering blog, support, and 13 more developer resources.

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19.7/100 emerging Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

CompanyURL-ShortenerOpen-SourcePHP Self-Hosted

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 19.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.1 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.5 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 0.0 — up to +12.0 composite points

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

YOURLS API

YOURLS provides a simple HTTP API for creating, managing, and retrieving short URLs as documented in the developer guide.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Yourls Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

Yourls Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Yourls Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

References

References

References

References

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Support

Support

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: yourls
name: YOURLS
image: https://yourls.org/assets/images/splash.png
description: YOURLS (Your Own URL Shortener) is an open‑source PHP application that lets you run your own URL shortening service
  on a self‑hosted server. It provides a simple web interface, API endpoints for creating, managing, and tracking short URLs,
  and supports plugins for extending functionality. The project is maintained by the community and offers documentation, a
  GitHub repository, and a public blog for updates and support.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yourls/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:new-submission
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-28 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-28'
modified: '2026-10-28'
tags:
- Company
- URL-Shortener
- Open-Source
- PHP
- Self-Hosted
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/yourls-authentication.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/yourls-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/yourls-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/yourls-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/yourls-vendors.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/yourls-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/yourls-packages.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://yourls.org/blog/tags/security
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS/releases
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://yourls.org/docs/category/getting-started
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/yourls-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/yourls-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://yourls.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://yourls.org/docs
- type: Blog
  url: https://yourls.org/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS
- type: Support
  url: https://yourls.org/sponsor
- type: References
  url: https://yourls.org/hooklist.php
- type: References
  url: https://yourls.org/xref/
apis:
- name: YOURLS API
  description: YOURLS provides a simple HTTP API for creating, managing, and retrieving short URLs as documented in the developer
    guide.
  humanURL: https://yourls.org/docs
  aid: yourls:yourls-api
x-submission-probe: 200, 2026-10-26
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: Documentation is provided as HTML pages without a downloadable OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, gRPC, or WSDL spec.
  evidence:
  - url: https://yourls.org/docs
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-10-28'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-28'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 11
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

YOURLS API — frequently asked questions

Does YOURLS have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from YOURLS, including YOURLS API.

How do I authenticate with the YOURLS API?

YOURLS uses bearer-token authentication (1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Yourls Authentication.

Is the YOURLS API ready for AI agents?

YOURLS has a Kin Score of 19.7 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 2.5 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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