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Short links, QR codes and page-view trackers for AI agents, with click stats and email-code sign-up.
Remote server: your requests and data go to b59.link. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http b59-link https://b59.link/api/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
auth — Sign in to b59.link to own what you create (and for 300 requests/minute on the REST API). Pass api_key to get a session key straight away. Oshorten_url — Shorten a long URL and get a memorable b59.link short URL. Optionally specify a custom slug. Returns the short URL and a stats URL.generate_qr — Generate a trackable QR code for a URL. Creates a b59.link short URL at the same time so scans are counted. Returns the short URL, a stats Ucreate_tracker — Create a free page-view tracker for a website. Returns the tag image URL and ready-to-paste snippets for the site's pages, plus the stats URget_stats_url — Get the stats page URL for anything b59.link tracks: a slug or short URL, the destination URL of a short link or QR code, a tracker id or talookup_url — Check whether a URL already has a b59.link short URL. Handles variations: http/https, www prefix, trailing slash. Returns the existing shortmake_qr_image — Make a QR code image for any text (URL, Wi-Fi string, phone, email, plain text) without creating a short link. Supports colors, size and SVGwatch_printed_links — Watch up to 25 printed links (QR codes on menus, short links on flyers, posters, packaging, cards). Checks each one now and then once a day,get_watch_report — Get the state of every link in a printed-link watch: working, dead, moved, deactivated page, redirect changed or certificate expiring, what Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.