YOURLS MCP Server
@kesslerio
Basic information
About YOURLS MCP Server
Model Control Protocol (MCP) server for YOURLS URL shortening integration with Claude Desktop
YOURLS MCP Server config
Add this server to your MCP-compatible client using the configuration below.
{
"mcpServers": {
"yourls-mcp": {
"command": "node",
"args": [
"yourls-mcp.js"
]
}
}
}YOURLS MCP Server tools
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Overview
What is YOURLS-MCP?
YOURLS-MCP is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that integrates your self-hosted YOURLS URL shortener with Claude Desktop. It acts as a bridge, allowing Claude to shorten, expand, and manage URLs through your personal YOURLS instance.
How to use YOURLS-MCP?
Clone the repository, install dependencies with npm install, then configure Claude Desktop by adding a YOURLS-MCP entry to its config.json file with environment variables such as YOURLS_API_URL, YOURLS_AUTH_METHOD, and YOURLS_SIGNATURE_TOKEN. Once configured, Claude automatically uses the provided MCP tools when given URL-related prompts.
Key features of YOURLS-MCP
- Shorten long URLs using your YOURLS instance
- Create custom short URLs with specific keywords
- Create multiple short URLs for the same destination URL
- Expand short URLs to see their original destination
- Retrieve click statistics for individual short URLs
- View global statistics for your YOURLS instance
- Shorten URLs with Google Analytics UTM tracking parameters
- Plugin-based tools for advanced URL management (requires additional YOURLS plugins)
Use cases of YOURLS-MCP
- Quickly shorten a long URL through a natural language prompt to Claude
- Create branded short links with custom keywords for marketing campaigns
- Add UTM tracking parameters to shortened URLs for analytics
- Retrieve click counts and detailed analytics for existing short URLs
- Manage and search your YOURLS database, including listing, updating, and deleting short URLs
FAQ from YOURLS-MCP
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(No FAQ section is present in the README.)
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