Integrations / URL Shortener
Connect Bitly to WhatsApp with an AI agent
Flann is an AI agent your business talks to on WhatsApp. Connect Bitly once, then ask Flann to look things up in it or get work done in it, by text or voice note. Flann already talks to your customers on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok. Linking Bitly lets it turn what it hears there into lists, segments and campaign drafts. You stay the editor.
10 actions in Bitly. 7 only look things up, and 3 create, update, send or delete. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in Bitly
Send any of these on WhatsApp, in your own words. Flann finds the right Bitly action and fills in the details from the conversation.
“Look up the account context in Bitly.”
“Look up the usage in Bitly.”
“Look up the bitlink in Bitly.”
“Delete the bitlink in Bitly.”
What Flann can work with in Bitly
Bitly gives Flann 10 actions across 5 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Bitlinks | deletelook upupdate | 4 |
Doing it yourself, wiring up a rule, or asking an agent: here is how they compare for Bitly.
| Compare | Bitly on its ownEvery step is yours | A fixed workflowTriggers built in advance | With FlannThe work comes to your chat |
|---|---|---|---|
| How you ask | Log in and click through the screens | Only what was wired up in advance | Text or voice note, in your own words |
| Looking things up | By hand, screen by screen | Only the look-ups someone built | 7 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Creating and updating | Typed in by hand | Run unchecked once built | 3 changes, made from a message |
| Bitly records | All of them, one screen at a time | Only the ones you wire up | 5 kinds, from one chat |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Someone builds and maintains each flow | Your Bitly API key, once |
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Step by step: Bitly jobs you can hand to Flann
Each step below names the Bitly action Flann actually runs.
Fix a bitlink without opening Bitly
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Change the bitlink in Bitly: here is what is different.”
- Flann runs
List Bitlinksin Bitly and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Update Bitlinkin Bitly. - Flann makes the change in Bitly and confirms in the chat.
Get answers about your contexts
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our contexts in Bitly?”
- Flann runs
Get Account Contextin Bitly and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Bitly is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your usages from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our usages in Bitly stand.”
- Flann runs
Get Usage and Limitsin Bitly and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Bitly is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Repetitive Bitly work Flann takes off your plate
These are the jobs that come back every day or every week. Message Flann instead, and keep the decisions for yourself.
Trackable links for every campaign
Today
Every flyer, post and email needs its own short link so you can tell which one worked. Making and naming them in Bitly is fiddly, and the names are never consistent.
With Flann
“Make short links in Bitly for the menu page, one each for Instagram, flyer and email.”
For each channel, Flann prepares a short link in Bitly with a clear name and the right tracking tags, and shows you the list. A small job, done properly.
What you stop doing: Nobody has to remember the tracking tags or the naming rules.
Refreshing the welcome sequence
Today
The welcome emails in Bitly were written when you opened, and they still mention a product you stopped selling. Nobody has looked at them since.
With Flann
“Read my welcome emails in Bitly and tell me what is out of date.”
Reading each step of the sequence in Bitly, Flann flags old prices, retired products, broken links and anything that no longer sounds like you. It proposes rewritten versions side by side with the originals.
What you stop doing: New subscribers stop meeting the business you used to be.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Bitly
- Search for Bitly in Flann’s Connectors.
- Paste your Bitly API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your Bitly account settings.
- Go back to WhatsApp and ask for what you need. Flann chooses the Bitly action and fills in the details.
Look-ups run as soon as you ask and change nothing in Bitly. You can disconnect Bitly from Connectors at any time.
Ways to use Bitly with Flann
Check what worked
Ask how last week’s campaign did. Flann pulls the results from Bitly and tells you what to change next time.
Grow the audience you already have
Ask Flann to add this month’s new customers to a list in Bitly.
Write in your voice
Everything Flann can do in Bitly
The full list of Bitly actions available to Flann once you connect it.
Looks up 7
- Expand Link
- Get Account Context
- Get Bitlink
- Get Bitlink Activity
- Get Bitlink Traffic Sources
- Get Usage and Limits
- List Bitlinks
Changes 3
- Delete Bitlink
- Shorten Link
- Update Bitlink
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What can Flann do with bitlinks in Bitly?
Flann can delete, look up and update bitlinks in Bitly, using 4 actions (Delete Bitlink, Get Bitlink, List Bitlinks, Update Bitlink). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change bitlinks in Bitly.
How does Flann connect to Bitly?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Bitly and paste your Bitly API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your Bitly account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 10 actions in Bitly.
Can I use Bitly from WhatsApp?
Yes. You talk to Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and Flann works in Bitly for you. You do not need to open Bitly.
Is Bitly included in my Flann plan?
Yes. Every Flann plan includes every app, Bitly included.