> On Apr 27, 2023, at 11:23 PM, Fitchett, Deborah <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Kia ora,
> 
> A library user’s looking for a way to generate a QR code for a specific webpage. They’ll want it to work on a fairly permanent basis and I’d want to avoid any statistics/trackers being embedded – so it shouldn’t be dependent on a middle-party like bit.ly to resolve it.
> 
> Does anyone know of somewhere they can do this?

There are a lot of things that can do this (I even made one yesterday on my phone… it was an iPhone ‘shortcut’… I don’t know if it’s a built-in or something from one of the apps that I have installed)

But one bit of advice: choose a short URL to start.  As it’s basically just an encoding standard, the longer the URL, the more complex the image becomes.  If you can control the website, you can mint a URL that’s short to start with, or set up a redirect or rewrite if you’re using a content management system.

And then test your QR code… there are plenty of readers out there that will tell you what the URL (or other text) is instead of just sending you blindly to a webpage.  That will let you know if the code links straight to the site you wanted, or if it tries going through some tracking website first.

-Joe

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