Can I create a short link with an expiration time?

[huangyutongs]

Shlink version

2.6.2

PHP version

PHP 8.0.2

How do you serve Shlink

RoadRunner Docker image

Database engine

MySQL

Database version

5.7.26

Summary

In my scenario, a large number of short links are temporarily generated for clients, which leads to increasing bloat.Can I create a short link with an expiration time?

[acelaya]

Can you elaborate what "expiration time" means for you?

[huangyutongs]

For me, I need to generate a short link that is valid for one day. It can be automatically deleted when it expires, so that it does not occupy database or redis space, and there is no need to maintain a large number of existing short links.

[acelaya]

EDIT: As of Shlink 4.1.0, this will be more or less supported. Not fully automated, but Shlink will provide a CLI command to delete expired short URLs. See #2086 for details.

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No, this is not supported at the moment.

It was asked before, but it seems I neglected to answer there for some reason.

[huangyutongs]

I think this is a very useful feature, it would be great if it could be implemented

[acelaya]

A variation of this might come eventually. See #2059

[ne0ark]

Is it possible to create links with default expiration times? Currently shlink chrome plugin doesn't allow you set it.