Bitly

The Bitly modules enable you to shorten links, expand links and list links in your Bitly account.

Getting Started with Bitly

Prerequisites

In order to use Bitly with Make, it is necessary to have a Bitly account. If you do not have one, you can create a Bitly account at bitly.com.

The module dialog fields that are displayed in bold (in the Make scenario, not in this documentation article) are mandatory!

To connect your Bitly account to Make follow the general instructions for Connecting to services.Connecting Make to any web service

After you click the Continue button, Make will redirect you to the Bitly website where you will be prompted to grant Make access to your account.

Confirm the dialog by clicking the Allow button.

Shortens entered URL to the Bitlink.

Connection	Establish a connection to your Bitly account.
Long URL	Enter the URL you want to convert to the short link.
Organization	Select the organization that contains a group you want to use.
Group	Select or map the group you want to shorten the link on behalf of.

Retrieves the long URL from the short link.

Connection	Establish a connection to your Bitly account.
Bitlink ID	Enter (map) the short link you want to be expanded.

Allows you to perform a custom API call.

Connection	Establish a connection to your Bitly account.
URL	Enter a path relative to `https://api-ssl.bitly.com`. E.g. `/v4/groups` For the list of available endpoints, refer to the Bitly API v4 Documentation.
Method	Select the HTTP method you want to use: GET - to retrieve information for an entry. POST - to create a new entry. PUT - to update/replace an existing entry. PATCH - to make a partial entry update. DELETE - to delete an entry.
Headers	Enter the desired request headers. You don't have to add authorization headers; we already did that for you.
Query String	Enter the request query string.
Body	Enter the body content for your API call.

The following API call returns all links for the specified group in your Bitly account:

URL:

/v4/groups/Bk2l8aVZxXv/bitlinks

Replace "Bk2l8aVZxXv" by the ID of the group you want to retrieve links for.

Method:

GET

Matches of the search can be found in the module's Output under Bundle > Body > links.

In our example, 3 links were returned:

Retrieves Bitlinks for the specified group.

Connection	Establish a connection to your Bitly account.
Organization	Select the organization that contains a group you want to use.
Group	Select or map the group you want to retrieve links for.
Limit	Set the maximum number of results Make will return during one execution cycle.

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