zws-im/zws

zws-im/zws has 1,845 GitHub stars and 148 forks. GitHot measured 0 stars in 24 hours and -1 in 7 days. Last checked 2026-11-09 00:18 UTC. Last push 2026-11-02.

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Shorten URLs using invisible spaces

1,845 stars 148 forks

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in 7 days: -1
in 15 days: Collecting history
in 1 month: Collecting history

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README.md

Zero Width Shortener (ZWS)

Shorten URLs with invisible spaces.

Try it out online: zws.im (or with our CLI).

API Documentation

An OpenAPI schema and API documentation is available here: zws.im/api-docs.

Contributors

Code Contributors

ZWS is maintained by Jonah Snider but contributions to the codebase are more than welcome!

Special thanks to Jaex for integrating ZWS into ShareX.

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Badges

ZWS instances expose a few routes that implement the Shields endpoint schema:

Image	Route	Description	Example
	`/stats/shields/urls`	Number of shortened URLs	`https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://api.zws.im/stats/shields/urls`
	`/stats/shields/visits`	Number of visited URLs	`https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://api.zws.im/stats/shields/visits`

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