QR codes

You can find Python libraries like PyQRCode and qrcode. Plenty of subscription services offer add-ons like tracking, but they’re surprisingly expensive and I don’t recommend them. If I want fancy tracking for click-throughs on QR-coded links, I just use bit.ly or another URL shortener/tracker.

Lots of software quietly supports QR codes; for example, the DTP package scribus includes QR codes as one of its supported barcode formats.

Here are some perfectly functional online QR code generators:

• goqr.me (Does a good job, simple and straightforward)

• qr-code-generator.com (bitly-backed, so serviceable but heavy on the upsell)

• qrcode.js is a small library that encodes whatever text you want in a QR code and renders it in situ.

  QRCode.js is a JavaScript library for making QRCode. QRCode.js supports Cross-browser with HTML5 Canvas and table tag in DOM. QRCode.js has no dependencies.

• qrstuff.com used to have various nifty specialised QR code URLs like Wi-Fi passwords and payment links now seems to only produce QR codes linking to their website so they can track your traffic? I thought they were better before? Did they enshittify?

• Wix.com QR Code Generator unusably upsell-focused.