skorokithakis/shortuuid
A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
62/100
- Activity 88
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5716
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 74
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2196 stars · 117 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
shortuuid is a Python library that generates concise, unambiguous, URL-safe UUIDs by translating standard UUIDs to a base57 alphabet that omits look-alike characters. It also supports custom alphabets, encoding/decoding existing UUIDs, and generating cryptographically secure random strings.
Use cases
- generate short user-facing unique ids
- create url-safe uuids for slugs and links
- encode and decode existing uuids to shorter strings
- generate random secure strings with a custom alphabet
- avoid ambiguous characters like l, 1, O and 0 in ids
When to choose
- you need non-sequential ids that users will see and type
- you want url-safe, human-friendly identifiers in a Python project
- you need to shorten existing UUIDs reversibly
When to avoid
- you need cryptographically strong uniqueness guarantees with truncated ids
- you need standard UUID format for interoperability
- you are not working in Python
Facets
library · maturity stable
serialization developer-tools developer-tools web-development databases python cross-platform uuid short-ids url-safe base57 identifier-generation
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/skorokithakis/shortuuid · fetched 2026-08-28 · f515ff35de63
- homepage: http://www.stavros.io/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 28decc6b5fb1
- site_page: https://www.stavros.io/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 619d4698256b
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/shortuuid/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 558e02f332a2
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| skorokithakis/shortuuid | main | 62 |
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