The Scenario
You're a marketing ops manager. During the annual link audit, you identified 140 Short.io short links from discontinued product pages — pages that no longer exist and redirect to a generic 404. The links are creating confusion when the team searches for current campaign links in the Short.io dashboard. You need them permanently gone.
The 140 link IDs are already in column A of an Excel workbook. You brought this to the last three ops syncs and kept getting deprioritized. Your director finally said "just do it this week" in an email yesterday.
The bad version:
- Open Short.io, search for each link ID, click the delete option from the link's action menu, confirm the permanent deletion when the modal appears
- Repeat 140 times, using Short.io's search bar for each one because there's no multi-select delete in the dashboard's standard view
- Get interrupted halfway through by a stakeholder call, close the browser tab, and have to re-figure out which links you already deleted by cross-referencing what's still in Short.io against the Excel list
This task should have taken fifteen minutes. It has now appeared on your task list for three weeks.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the link IDs from column A and calls Short.io's bulk delete endpoint — processing all 140 links in one operation.
Delete the 140 Short.io link IDs in my Excel table in one bulk operation and mark each row's Status column as 'deleted' when done
What You Get
- All 140 links submitted to Short.io's bulk delete endpoint in one call
- The Status column updates to "deleted" for each successfully removed link
- Any link ID that returns an error (already deleted, not found, permission issue) surfaces a note in the Status column rather than silently failing
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some links may have already been deleted by a team member
A colleague started cleaning up links last month and you're not sure which ones they got to.
For each link ID in column A, check with Short.io whether the link still exists — if it does, delete it and write "deleted" in column B; if it's already gone, write "not found" in column B; skip any blank rows in column A
Some rows are marked "hold for review" and should not be deleted yet
Eleven links are still under review by the legal team before deletion is approved.
For each link ID in column A where column C is NOT marked "hold for review", permanently delete the Short.io link and write "deleted" in column B — for rows marked "hold for review", skip deletion and write "skipped" in column B
You need to record the destination URL before deleting for the compliance log
The company's data governance policy requires a deletion log that includes what each link pointed to.
For each link ID in column A, retrieve the destination URL from Short.io and write it into column B — then permanently delete the link and write "deleted" into column C
Full compliance documentation plus bulk deletion in one shot
For each link ID in column A where column C is not "hold for review", retrieve the destination URL into column B, retrieve the link title into column C, then permanently delete the link and write "deleted" into column D — flag any failures with the error reason in column D
The dashboard is clean and the compliance log is complete before end of week.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with a column of Short.io link IDs you're ready to permanently remove — then ask it to run the bulk delete. Also see how to bulk-archive links if you want to keep them recoverable, or pull click stats before deleting to verify none of them are still active.