Paste a link, get a shorter one.
What Snip does
Snip turns a long URL into a short snipp.cc address. Paste the link, press Shorten, and the short one appears in the same place. No account, and nothing to install.
Every short link comes with a delete key, shown once when the link is made. Send that key back and the link stops working. Most free shorteners hand you an address you can never take back; this one does not.
Clicks on your short links are not counted and the people who open them are not logged, so there is no dashboard to check and nothing about your readers sitting in a database. Short addresses are random, which also means nobody can register snipp.cc/paypal and point it somewhere ugly.
Take a link down
Paste the short link and the delete key that came with it. This cannot be undone, and a key that is gone cannot be looked up. If you no longer have yours, mail the report address at the bottom of this page.
Do it from a script instead
The short link is the endpoint. There is no separate API host and no key to register.
curl -X DELETE https://snipp.cc/AbCdEfG \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR-DELETE-KEY"204 means the link is down. 404 comes back both for a key that does not match and for a link that is not there. That is on purpose: telling the two apart would let someone sweep the domain to learn which short links exist.
A deleted link can keep redirecting for up to a minute, which is how long a read stays cached.
Questions
Do I need an account?
No. The box at the top of this page is the whole service.
Can I choose the ending of the short link?
No. Every link gets seven random characters. Chosen endings are how shorteners end up hosting a fake bank login, and one abused address can take every link on the domain down with it.
Does a short link expire?
No. It keeps working until someone deletes it with its key. Nothing is reclaimed for sitting unused.
What does Snip store?
A short link holds where it points, a hash of its delete key, and the time it was made. That is the whole record, and none of it is about the people who open the link.
No accounts, no cookies. Opening a short link is not counted and not logged.
This page is measured with Umami: pages opened, buttons pressed, where the visit came from, and a rough guess at country and device. No cookie is set and nothing follows you to other sites. The URL you paste is never sent there. Umami is a separate company and that data sits on their servers. Short links carry none of this; the script runs on this page only.
Making a link counts your IP address against the ten second and daily limits. What gets stored is a number and a date, held until the day rolls over. The address itself is not written down, and neither limit leaves a record of what you shortened. Cloudflare runs the service and keeps its own edge logs.
How many links can I make?
About one every ten seconds, and 50 a day from the same address. The daily number is a firm stop, and the count starts over at midnight UTC.
The ten second spacing is looser than it sounds. It gets counted at whichever Cloudflare location your request lands on, so an extra link slips through now and then before the wait applies. Treat it as a pace to keep rather than a number to measure against. If you are calling this from a script, wait when you get a 429 instead of retrying straight away.
The limits are there because the free plan Snip runs on allows a fixed number of new links per day across everyone using it. Without a cap, one person shortening a spreadsheet of URLs takes the rest of the day away from everybody else. Bulk runs are not something this service does right now.
These numbers are a starting point and will move as real use shows what normal looks like. If they change, this page changes with them.
Is it free?
Yes, and it needs no account. That is where things stand today rather than a promise. If a paid tier or a lower limit becomes necessary, this page will say so first.