shortid

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Short id generator. Url-friendly. Non-predictable. Cluster-compatible.

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Created on Dec 19, 2011

Updated on Apr 6, 2026

Stars

5.7k

Forks

252

Watchers

5.7k

Open Issues

16

Repository Health Score

💛

78/100

Good

Overall repository health assessment

Score Breakdown

Activity

Active development - updated this week

30/30

100%

Issues Analytics

77

Total Issues

All time

15

Open

19% of total

62

Closed

Recent Commits

release 2.2.17

Andrey Sitnik•1 year ago

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Update only clean-publish

Andrey Sitnik•5 years ago

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Revert "Update development tools"

Andrey Sitnik•5 years ago

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release 2.2.16

Andrey Sitnik•5 years ago

e95520cView on GitHub

Update development tools

Andrey Sitnik•5 years ago

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Add deprecation notice to project readme

Russell Dunphy•5 years ago

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release 2.2.15

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

1403944View on GitHub

Fix Node.js 6 on Travis CI

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

a08cef3View on GitHub

Update clean-publish

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

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Clean up package.json

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

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Update reduce time

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

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Update Size Limit

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

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Update Nano ID

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

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release 2.2.14

Andrey Sitnik•7 years ago

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Community

5,722 stars, 252 forks

8/30

27%

Documentation

Has description, wiki, license

20/20

100%

Maintenance

0.3% issue ratio

20/20

100%

Health score is calculated based on activity, community engagement, documentation quality, and maintenance practices

Languages

JavaScript

96.5%

HTML

3.5%

Dependencies18 total

1

Production

17

Development

Production Dependencies (1)

nanoid^3.3.8

Development Dependencies (17)

@size-limit/preset-small-lib^2.1.3

chai^4.2.0

Top Contributors

1

dylang

User

55

commits

2

ai

User

52

commits

3

rarcega

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2

commits

4

UpTechCarlin

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1

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5

charleslxh2

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1

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snqb

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1

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rengokantai

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1

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johnjacobkenny

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1

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9

mortonfox

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1

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n-rook

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1

commits

Languages

JavaScript

96.5%

HTML

3.5%

Issues Analytics

77

Total Issues

All time

15

Open

19% of total

62

Closed

Dependencies18 total

1

Production

17

Development

Production Dependencies (1)

nanoid^3.3.8

Development Dependencies (17)

@size-limit/preset-small-lib^2.1.3

chai^4.2.0

clean-publish

^1.1.8

envify^4.1.0

grunt^1.0.3

grunt-browserify^5.3.0

grunt-cli^1.3.2

grunt-contrib-concat^1.0.1

grunt-contrib-jshint^1.1.0

grunt-contrib-uglify^3.4.0

grunt-mocha-test^0.13.3

grunt-notify^0.4.1

grunt-open^0.2.3

grunt-release^0.14.0

load-grunt-tasks^4.0.0

mocha^5.2.0

time-grunt^1.2.1

shortidv2.2.17

81% of total

5mo

Avg Close Time

Avg response

Issues Activity: Last 6 months

Hottest Issues

1

#153 Uniqueness broken since 2.2.9?

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8

open

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#146 How to generate just alphanumeric unique ids?

3

12

open

3

#96 Trailing dash in urls being dropped in sms - some android devices

8

5

open

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#119 Collision probability?

9

open

5

#70 RNG appears to be predictable, have short period

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5

closed

Top Contributors

1

dylang

User

55

commits

2

ai

User

52

commits

3

rarcega

User

2

commits

4

UpTechCarlin

User

1

commits

5

charleslxh2

User

1

commits

6

snqb

User

1

commits

7

rengokantai

User

1

commits

8

johnjacobkenny

User

1

commits

9

mortonfox

User

1

commits

10

n-rook

User

1

commits

Recent Commits

release 2.2.17

Andrey Sitnik•1 year ago

ef422f7View on GitHub

Move to Nano ID 3

Andrey Sitnik•1 year ago

a12591bView on GitHub

Update only clean-publish

Andrey Sitnik•5 years ago

937ce2cView on GitHub

Revert "Update development tools"

Andrey Sitnik•5 years ago

2e59a92View on GitHub

release 2.2.16

Andrey Sitnik•5 years ago

e95520cView on GitHub

Update development tools

Andrey Sitnik•5 years ago

8662936View on GitHub

Add deprecation notice to project readme

Russell Dunphy•5 years ago

e20d680View on GitHub

release 2.2.15

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

1403944View on GitHub

Fix Node.js 6 on Travis CI

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

a08cef3View on GitHub

Update clean-publish

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

6a53ce6View on GitHub

Clean up package.json

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

2a048c0View on GitHub

Update reduce time

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

d88eb2dView on GitHub

Update Size Limit

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

5a1d108View on GitHub

Update Nano ID

Andrey Sitnik•6 years ago

b45d595View on GitHub

release 2.2.14

Andrey Sitnik•7 years ago

318ff16View on GitHub

View all commits

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shortid

Score Breakdown

Production Dependencies (1)

Development Dependencies (17)

Production Dependencies (1)

Development Dependencies (17)

Issues Activity: Last 6 months

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