Utilities

Create a Short URL and Read Its Statistics

Create a YOURLS short URL and read its link statistics.

Setup

Use a YOURLS instance accessible over HTTPS and its API signature. In Open Flow, create a secret Variable for the signature and bind Auth Token on both HTTP nodes. Run with the instance base URL, destination URL and link title. In n8n, connect the YOURLS credential to both nodes and edit Set link details.

The signature is sent in the request query, as in the source node. Server and proxy URL logs may contain it; protect those logs. Use only a trusted YOURLS instance.

Behavior

Each run asks YOURLS to shorten the destination and uses the returned short URL to retrieve its statistics. YOURLS controls whether an existing short URL is returned. Failure stops subsequent steps; a lost response may mean creation succeeded, so check YOURLS before retrying. No automatic retry or rollback is performed.

Inspiration & credits

Changes to the source

Replace the example URL and title with configurable values. Open Flow requires HTTPS for the instance; configure the n8n credential with an HTTPS instance URL.
Open Flow uses the YOURLS API with the same signature authentication and returns the link statistics. Both formats validate the creation result before requesting statistics.

Adapted from Create a short URL and get the statistics of the URL in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The matching n8n community listing credits Harshil Agrawal. The original template does not state a separate license.

The collection’s MIT notice is pinned at a later revision. This is the collection notice at that revision; it does not establish a separate original template author’s license. Our changes are listed above; see repository licensing.

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