zws.im
Open in
urlscan Pro
76.76.21.21
Public Scan
URL:
https://zws.im/
Submission: On January 24 via manual from DE — Scanned from DE
Submission: On January 24 via manual from DE — Scanned from DE
Form analysis 1 forms found in the DOM
<form class="flex h-14 w-full rounded bg-white"><input class="placeholder-[rgba(10, 0, 37, 0.6)] h-full w-full rounded-l bg-transparent p-4 text-black outline-none" placeholder="https://github.com/zws-im/zws" type="url" required="" autofocus=""
name="url" value=""><button class="flex h-full min-w-max items-center justify-center rounded-r p-4 transition-colors font-bold text-zws-purple-500 hover:bg-purple-100 active:bg-purple-200 disabled:bg-purple-200" type="submit">Shorten</button>
</form>Text Content
Zero Width Shortener * Stats * Questions * API Docs * GitHub ZERO WIDTH SHORTENER Shorten URLs with zero width characters, instead of XyGa7z. Shorten FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How does this tool work? Why can I see some characters at the end of the link? Why doesn't ZWS work on [chat service]? ZWS uses zero width characters instead of the typical alphanumeric ones that URL shorteners use. When rendered, these characters appear invisible, but they're still there, which means that ZWS is able to use them to encode information about your URL. ABOUT US Hi, I'm Jonah, the creator of ZWS. I hacked together the first version of ZWS back in 2019, mostly just to see if the concept would actually work. It turns out it did work, and since then we've shortened a few hundred thousand URLs, and handled redirects millions of times. Over time, ZWS has gone through a lot of design iterations, on both the frontend and backend. If you're curious about how ZWS works internally, feel free to look at the source code on GitHub. 891.5K URLs shortened 9.8M Visits 1.6K GitHub stars ZWS is licensed under Apache 2.0