kittygram-redirect

kittygram-redirect is a lightweight Go-based web server that redirects Instagram links to available Kittygram instances.

You can use it at redirect.kittygr.am.

Hosting your own

With Docker/Podman

We have pre-built images you can run. To run the latest version of kittygram-redirect:

docker run -p18956:18956 foundry.fsky.io/fsky/kittygram-redirect:latest

If you are using Podman, the process is the same. Just replace docker with podman in the command.

Quadlet

You can find a Quadlet file in contrib/quadlet/kittygram-redirect.container. Download it and place it into /etc/containers/systemd/ or ~/.config/containers/systemd/. After that, run:

systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user start kittygram-redirect.service

Build from source

This program is written in Go. You need Go 1.25 or later.

You can build a binary using:

go build

Configuration

The application can be configured using the following environment variables:

Variable	Description	Default
PROBE_TOR	Enable health checks for Tor instances	false
PROBE_I2P	Enable health checks for I2P instances	false
PROBE_YGGDRASIL	Enable health checks for Yggdrasil instances	false
TOR_PROXY	Proxy URL for Tor health checks	socks5://127.0.0.1:9050
I2P_PROXY	Proxy URL for I2P health checks	http://127.0.0.1:4444

License

This project is released into the public domain under the Unlicense.