Bitly is a link management platform for creating, branding, routing and measuring short links, QR Codes and link-in-bio pages at scale. The Bitly v4 REST API is a 94-operation, bearer-authenticated JSON API at https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4 covering Bitlink creation and expansion, custom back-halves, branded short domains, groups (workspaces) and organizations, campaigns and channels, dynamic and static QR Codes, bulk shortening, engagement webhooks, and a deep click/scan analytics surface sliced by country, city, device, OS, browser and referrer. Bitly publishes its own OpenAPI 3.0 definition and operates an official remote Model Context Protocol server, making it directly callable by AI agents.
Bitly publishes 11 APIs on the APIs.io network, including BSDs API, Bitlinks API, Campaigns API, and 8 more. Tagged areas include Links, URL Shorteners, QR Codes, Analytics, and Marketing.
The Bitly catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.
Bitly’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, pricing, signup flow, support, engineering blog, and 43 more developer resources.
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List the branded short domains (BSDs) available to the authenticated account. 1 operation(s), extracted verbatim from the OpenAPI Bitly publishes at https://dev.bitly.com/v4/v4....
Create, expand, update, archive and delete Bitlinks, list them by group, and read per-link click, engagement, country, city, device and referrer metrics. 21 operation(s), extrac...
Manage marketing campaigns and the channels inside them, grouping Bitlinks for attribution. 8 operation(s), extracted verbatim from the OpenAPI Bitly publishes at https://dev.bi...
Create and update custom back-halves on existing Bitlinks and read clicks by destination for A/B rotations. 5 operation(s), extracted verbatim from the OpenAPI Bitly publishes a...
Manage groups (workspaces) — preferences, tags, shorten counts, exports, feature usage and historical usage — plus the full group-level click, scan and engagement analytics surf...
Read organizations, their plan limits, and shorten counts overall and by group. 5 operation(s), extracted verbatim from the OpenAPI Bitly publishes at https://dev.bitly.com/v4/v...
Create dynamic and static QR Codes, customize their render, fetch the image, upgrade a code to a Bitlink, and read scan metrics by browser, city, country and device OS. 16 opera...
Read and update the authenticated user profile and read the platform limits applied to the account. 3 operation(s), extracted verbatim from the OpenAPI Bitly publishes at https:...
Create, read, update, delete and verify webhook endpoints that receive Bitly engagement events. 6 operation(s), extracted verbatim from the OpenAPI Bitly publishes at https://de...
Bitly's official remote Model Context Protocol server, exposing 25 tools for link creation, QR Codes, analytics, groups, custom domains and bulk upload. Hosted by Bitly at https...
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