Nimble Links Zapier integrationAutomate Nimble Links with Zapier.
The Nimble Links Zapier integration gives you 0 triggers and 3 actions, with no search step: Nimble Links always comes after another app in your Zap. Below, what each action does, what it costs, how to connect your account and where a Zap stops.
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What the Nimble Links Zapier integration does for you
Nimble Links is a set of online tools for building short links that do more than shorten. On Zapier it only receives: another app starts the Zap, then Nimble Links creates a plain short link, or a link that spreads its clicks across several destination URLs, evenly or at random.
Three results you can build with the three actions. First, a short link for every new URL: Create Short Link takes a destination URL from the step before and turns it into a short link, so nobody shortens addresses by hand. Second, a fair split of traffic: Create Redirect Evenly Link builds one link that shares clicks evenly between two or more URLs, handy when two pages should get the same share of visits. Third, a random split: Create Redirect Randomly Link does the same with a random distribution of clicks.
What Zapier does not do with Nimble Links: there is no trigger, so a Zap cannot start when a link is created or clicked in Nimble Links. There is no search step either, so a Zap cannot look up a link that already exists, and none of the actions edits or deletes a link. Every Zap starts in another app, which also sets how fast it runs.
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Zapier words in one minute
Eight words keep coming back below. Here they are in plain English, once.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run each time the trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. With Nimble Links, that event always happens in another app.
- Action
- What the Zap does once it has started: the step that creates, sends or moves something for you, like a short link.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completed successfully. The count on your plan is a count of those.
- Polling vs instant
- A polling trigger is checked on a timer. An instant trigger is reported by its app the moment the event happens.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
- Search step
- A step that finds something already stored in an app so later steps can use it. Nimble Links offers none on Zapier.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter makes it one, and it then needs a paid plan.
What a Nimble Links Zap really costs
Nimble Links is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan. The trigger in the other app costs nothing: only a Nimble Links action that succeeds counts as a task.
- Premium appNo, available on the free plan
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
- What countsEach successful action, never the trigger
Each successful action counts on its own: create a short link and then send an email, and every run uses two tasks. A failed action is not counted. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, each limited to two steps, one trigger and one action. A filter or a second action makes it a multi-step Zap, which needs a paid plan.
Nimble Links has no trigger, so the grid below concerns the app that starts your Zap: if its trigger works by polling, this is how often Zapier checks it on each plan.
Connect Nimble Links to Zapier in three steps
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, open Apps and click + Add connection. A connection is your Nimble Links account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step that creates links.
- 02
Find Nimble Links
Search for Nimble Links by name in the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. A new tab opens so you can sign in to your Nimble Links account and finish the link.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Sign in and grant Zapier access to the account. You need an account on the app, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.
Your first Nimble Links Zap, step by step
GoalWhen your form tool receives a new entry with a URL, create a short link in Nimble Links, then send an email.
- 01
Create the Zap
Start a new Zap and pick your form tool as the app that starts it, with its new-entry event. Connect the account. If the editor shows a lightning bolt, its trigger is instant.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items from the connected account, so you map fields on a real entry rather than on a guess.
- 03
Add the short link
Add Create Short Link from Nimble Links, choose your connection and map the entry's URL into Destination, the only required field of this action.
- 04
Add the email
Add your email step and map only values you have seen at the test; what Create Short Link returns is not described, so read its test result first. Two actions make this a multi-step Zap: it needs a paid plan and uses two tasks per run.
- 05
Test, then publish
Run each step once and read what came back. When the email looks right, click Publish to switch the Zap on. Our Zapier training is there if you want to go further.
Nimble Links actions on Zapier
Nimble Links gives you 3 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create Redirect Evenly Link
ActionIn Zapier“Creates a link that distributes clicks between multiple URLs evenly.”
Builds one link that shares its clicks evenly between several destination URLs, so each page gets a balanced part of the traffic.
Create Redirect Randomly Link
ActionIn Zapier“Creates a link that distributes clicks between multiple URLs at random.”
Creates a single link that sends each click to one of several destination URLs chosen at random.
Create Short Link
ActionIn Zapier“Creates a short link.”
Turns one destination URL into a short link, using the address that an earlier step of your Zap carried.
When a Nimble Links Zap stops working
Zapier does not attach a help article to Nimble Links, and no limit specific to the app is documented. What remains are four general rules that apply to every Zap.
Keep them in mind before you rely on the Zap. If a run fails anyway, see our Zapier troubleshooting guide.
Nothing before the switch-on
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you publish it. URLs that already sat in your other app are not picked up, and shortening that backlog is a separate job.A Zap that sets itself off
As a general precaution: a Zap that writes into the place its own trigger watches can start itself again and again, and use up tasks fast.A sudden flood
If the trigger app suddenly sends a huge batch, after a bulk import or a migration for example, Zapier's flood protection can hold those runs back.The same item twice
On a polling trigger, Zapier keeps track of what it has already seen, so the same item does not start the Zap twice.
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