Linkly Zapier integrationAutomate Linkly with Zapier.
The Linkly Zapier integration gives you 4 triggers, 3 actions and 1 search. All four triggers are instant, from a click on one link to a click anywhere in your workspace, and the actions create, update or delete Linkly links from your other tools.
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What the Linkly Zapier integration does for your links
Linkly shortens URLs and tracks the clicks they get. Through Zapier it can start a Zap (the automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions) when a link is clicked, created or deleted, and it can take orders to create, change or remove links coming from your other tools.
Three outcomes come up most. A click log you own: Any Link Clicked (Instant) sends every click in the workspace to a spreadsheet, so you can sort and chart it your way. A watch on the one link that matters: Specific Link Clicked (Instant) follows a single link you pick, which keeps a busy workspace from flooding the Zap. Links made where the work starts: Create Link builds a Linkly link from a URL that lands in another app, with options such as Cloaking or Block bots & spiders set at the same time.
Now the limits. The only search, Get Link, fetches one link you select; there is no visible step that lists all your links or pulls a click report for a period. Each click is also a separate Zap run, and every run that carries an action spends a task, so a link with heavy traffic adds up quickly.
Linkly also has a Linkly Make integration page on this site. To weigh the two platforms, see Make vs Zapier.
Zapier words in one minute
Seven terms come back on this page. Here they are once, in plain English.
- Zap
- Your automation on Zapier: one trigger first, then one or more actions that run each time that trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is switched on, Zapier waits for it and reacts each time.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you in an app.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. Your plan counts these and nothing else.
- Polling vs instant
- A polling trigger is checked on a timer. An instant trigger is reported by the app itself, the moment the event happens.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap continue only when what arrived meets your condition, and quietly stops it otherwise.
- Search step
- A step that looks up something already stored in an app, so the steps after it can reuse what it found.
What a Linkly Zap really costs
Linkly is not a premium app, so it works from the free plan. What you pay for is the actions that run after each click or each new link.
- Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps
- Premium appNo, Linkly works on the free plan
- Free plan Zap size2 steps: one trigger, one action
- Linkly triggers4 instant, 0 polling
The trigger never costs a task, and waiting for a click costs nothing either. Each action that succeeds counts once, so a three-action Zap uses three times more than a one-action Zap; a failed action is not counted. The free plan stops at two steps, one trigger and one action. A filter, the Get Link search or a second action turns it into a multi-step Zap, which needs a paid plan. The polling grid below does not apply to this app: its four triggers are instant.
Connect Linkly to Zapier in 3 steps
- 01
Open your connections
Go to the Apps page of your Zapier account and click + Add connection. A connection is your Linkly account linked once, then reused by every Zap step that needs it.
- 02
Pick Linkly
Type Linkly in the search box of the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. The Linkly account has to exist before this step, with the workspace you plan to automate.
- 03
Sign in and allow access
A tab opens on Linkly. Sign in and grant Zapier access to the account. If the links you want to change belong to someone else, your login needs write access to them.
Your first Zap: every click in a spreadsheet
GoalEach time any link in your Linkly workspace gets a click, add a row to a spreadsheet you can analyse later.
- 01
Create the Zap and set the trigger
Start a new Zap, choose Linkly as the app and Any Link Clicked (Instant) as the event, then pick the connection you added earlier.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items from your account, so you map fields from a real click rather than from blanks.
- 03
Add the spreadsheet action
Pick your spreadsheet app and its new-row action, then map the click details you care about into separate columns of the sheet.
- 04
Test the action
Run the step once and open the sheet to check the row. If a column comes out empty, fix the mapping now rather than after publishing.
- 05
Publish
Click Publish. Two steps in total, so the free plan is enough, and the lightning bolt in the editor confirms the trigger is instant.
Linkly triggers on Zapier
4 events start a Zap when something happens in Linkly, and 4 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
Specific Link Clicked (Instant)
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers instantly when a specific Linkly link is clicked. Select the link you want to monitor.”
Pick one Linkly link and this trigger starts a Zap each time someone clicks it, and only then. Clicks on your other links stay out of the Zap, which keeps runs and tasks under control.
New Link Created (Instant)
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers instantly when a new link is created in your Linkly workspace.”
Each link added to your Linkly workspace starts a Zap, whoever made it. It gives you a running record of what exists, kept outside Linkly and filled as people work.
Link Deleted (Instant)
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers instantly when a link is deleted from your Linkly workspace.”
When a link disappears from your workspace, this trigger passes the event on so the rest of your tools can catch up. Think of it as the clean-up signal for anything still pointing at that link.
Any Link Clicked (Instant)
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers instantly when any Linkly link in your workspace is clicked. This is faster than the polling-based trigger.”
Every click on any link in the workspace starts a run, with no link to choose beforehand. It is the widest net Linkly offers on Zapier, and the simplest way to own a complete click history.
Linkly actions on Zapier
Linkly gives you 3 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create Link
ActionIn Zapier“Creates a Linkly Link”
Builds a new Linkly link from the Destination, the only required field. You can set options at the same time, such as Publishing Status, Cloaking, Hide Referrer or Public Analytics.
Delete Link
ActionIn Zapier“Deletes an existing Linkly Link”
Removes a Linkly link that you select in the Link field, the one required field. After it runs, the link is gone from your workspace.
Update Link
ActionIn Zapier“Updates an existing Linkly Link”
Changes an existing link you select in the required Link field. The same switches as at creation are available, for instance Forward URL parameters or Skip Social Crawler Tracking.
The Linkly search on Zapier
1 search step looks for data that already exists in Linkly, so a later step can use it.
A search step fetches an existing link so later steps can use its details. In the editor, searches sit at the bottom of the Action event list, under SEARCH. Three settings decide what happens when the result is not one clean match.
Get Link
SearchIn Zapier“Find a specific Linkly link by its ID to use its data in your Zap.”
Fetches one specific link, selected in the required Link field, and hands its data to the next steps. It does not browse or filter the whole workspace.
The three settings every search exposes
- Successful if no search results are found?Left on its default, a search that finds nothing stops the Zap there and skips the steps that depended on it. Switched on, the Zap carries on empty-handed.
- Create X if it doesn't exist yet?Ticking it turns a search into a find-or-create. Linkly offers no such variant on Get Link, so this box will not appear here.
- If multiple search results are found?Three ways out when several items match: keep the first one, which is the default, stop the Zap, or pass all of them on.
When a Linkly Zap breaks
Zapier links no help article to Linkly and documents no limit specific to the app. What breaks is general Zapier behaviour, plus the loops that link triggers make easy to build.
These four cases cover most failures. If a Zap still refuses to run, the Zapier troubleshooting page is the next stop.
A Zap that keeps setting itself off
A Zap that writes where its own trigger watches restarts again and again. New Link Created (Instant) followed by Create Link is exactly that loop, and the task count drains fast.Old clicks and links are not picked up
A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Clicks and links from before stay out of reach; moving that backlog is a separate job.A sudden flood gets held back
When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after a bulk import or a migration for instance, Zapier's flood protection can hold the Zap back.The link list is empty
Steps that ask you to select a Link only show what the connected account can see. A link in a workspace that account cannot reach will not appear.
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