YLinkPro

ylinkpro_bot is a Russian-built Telegram bot for turning long URLs into short ones. Its interface is in Russian and English, and the interaction itself is simple enough to use in any language. Send it a link and a shortened version comes back in seconds; there's no sign-up flow to get in the way.

Two features set it apart from the most bare-bones shorteners. First, it supports Telegram's inline mode: type the bot's username followed by a link in the message box of any chat, and a shortened link can be sent without ever opening a direct conversation with the bot — useful mid-conversation in a group when breaking the flow isn't ideal. Second, it can generate a direct link for images sent to it, a small but genuinely useful trick when a plain image URL is needed rather than a Telegram file reference.

For tracking, the bot offers a simple /stat command that reports how many times a given short link has been clicked. It won't show where those clicks came from geographically or what device people used — this is basic click-counting, not a full analytics suite — but for anyone just wanting to know whether a link is actually being used, it's enough.

Overall it's a practical, no-nonsense shortener that covers the essentials — shortening, inline use, and a click counter — without asking anything of the user in return.