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An AI teammate for Bitly.

Connect Bitly and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 10 Bitly actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about Bitly
  • Compare last week's Bitly results with the week before and tell me what changed.
  • Which Bitly campaign cost the most for the least this month?
  • Send me a Monday summary of Bitly in Slack.
  • Pull the Bitly numbers into a sheet with a chart.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Bitly

10 Bitly actions, picked for what you ask.

About Bitly: Bitly is a link management platform for shortening, customizing, sharing, and measuring links and QR codes.

Reads

7 in all · always allowed
  • Expand Link
    Resolve a Bitlink to its current destination and destination history, when available.
  • Get Bitlink
    Retrieve full Bitlink metadata, including destination, title, tags, archive or deletion state, and…
  • List Bitlinks
    List or search Bitlinks owned by a group, one cursor-controlled page at a time.
  • Get Account Context
    Return the authenticated Bitly user together with accessible groups and organizations needed by…
  • Get Bitlink Activity
    Return paid-plan click or engagement analytics for a Bitlink as a timeline or summary.
  • Get Usage and Limits
    Inspect monthly plan quotas, hourly endpoint budgets, and optional group feature usage before…
  • Get Bitlink Traffic Sources
    Break down paid-plan Bitlink click analytics by country, city, device, referrer, or referring…

Changes

3 in all · off when Bitly is read-only
  • Shorten Link
    Create an ordinary Bitly short link for a long URL in a specific group.
  • Delete Bitlink
    Permanently delete an eligible unedited hash Bitlink.
  • Update Bitlink
    Update safe metadata or archive state for a Bitlink; this tool does not redirect destinations or…

Showing 10 of 10. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Bitly

    Open Connections, find Bitly and paste an API key from your Bitly account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Bitly with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Bitly job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Bitly, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

Questions

Bitly and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Bitly?

Yes. Bitly is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Bitly?

Open Connections, find Bitly and paste an API key from your Bitly account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Bitly?

10 actions: 7 that read from Bitly and 3 that change things in it, for example expand link, get bitlink, list bitlinks. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Bitly?

Yes. In Connections, set Bitly to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Bitly from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Bitly jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Bitly data safe?

Your Bitly login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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