Shorten, personalize, and share fully branded short URLs with continuous integration on Cloudflare

You’ve been there too, a fully branded short URLs is useful but your low volume does not justify a commercial solution. Furthermore, links generated by a free solution will eventually expire and they're not privacy friendly.

This kind of solution is known as TinyURL, tiny url, shorten that long URL, URL Shortening Service, goo.gl, bit.ly, or short.io.

My objective is to work at the command line and automate it. So feel free to fork, and customize. Go check my GitHub repository ??.

How does it work?

1. Register a tiny internet domain name with your preferred vendor
2. Add the domain to Cloudflare DNS
3. Store your URLs redirection list in a private GitHub repository
4. Create a project underneath Cloudflare Workers & PagesConnect the repositoryConfigure your deployment and build setup:Framework preset: noneBuild command: noneBuild output directory: /cfPageSetup a custom domain for your page project
5. Configure the DNS entry via Cloudflare DNS

Its bullet proof

As long as you secure your Github and Cloudflare accounts with robust authentication, there is not much that can go wrong with such simple solution. It use the products as designed, there is no hack involved.