The Scenario
You're a content strategist and your team runs the same landing page across multiple campaigns with different Short.io links for each placement — email, social, paid, organic. Someone in the Thursday review asked: "Which placement actually drove the most traffic to the product tour page?" You have the landing page URL. You have the domain ID. What you don't have is a quick way to pull all Short.io aliases pointing to that URL and compare their click counts.
The bad version:
- Try to use the Short.io dashboard search to find links by destination URL — realize the UI searches by short path, not original URL
- Navigate to the API documentation, find the endpoint to list links by original URL, copy your API key, construct the curl command, run it, parse the JSON output
- Paste the results manually into an Excel table, add the click count column, format it
This is a one-question attribution problem. It should take two minutes. The API documentation route takes 45, and half your team doesn't have the technical comfort level to do it at all.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the original URL and domain ID from your cells, queries Short.io for all aliases pointing to that destination, and writes the results into the workbook.
Look up all Short.io aliases pointing to the landing page URL in column A across my domain and write the short URL, creation date, and total clicks into adjacent columns
What You Get
- Column B fills with each short URL alias created for that original destination
- Column C shows the creation date for each alias
- Column D shows the total click count for each alias
- Results sorted by click count descending so the highest-traffic placement appears first
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You also need the UTM parameters for each alias
The review specifically asked which UTM source drove the most traffic — not just which short link.
Find all Short.io short links for the original URL in cell A1 within domain ID in cell B1 — list each short URL in column C, creation date in column D, total clicks in column E, UTM source in column F, UTM medium in column G, and UTM campaign in column H starting at row 3
You want to search across five landing page URLs at once
The content strategy review covers five key pages and you need placement attribution for all of them.
For each URL in column A rows 1 through 5, find all Short.io aliases on domain ID 1425403 and list each alias, its source URL, creation date, and click count in columns C through F — group results by source URL with a header row separating each group
You need to filter out links created before the current campaign window
The team only wants to see links from campaigns created after September 1, 2025 for the current attribution analysis.
Find all Short.io short links for the original URL in cell A1 within domain ID in cell B1 that were created after September 1, 2025 — list each short URL in column C, click count in column D, creation date in column E, and UTM campaign in column F starting at row 3
Full placement attribution analysis in one prompt
Find all Short.io short links for the original URL in cell A1 within domain ID in cell B1 — list each short URL, click count, creation date, UTM source, UTM medium, and UTM campaign in columns C through H starting at row 3, sorted descending by click count — then write a summary row below the data showing total clicks across all aliases
The Thursday review gets a complete placement attribution table without anyone touching the API docs.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook where you need to trace which Short.io placements drove traffic to a specific destination — then ask it to find every alias and their click counts. Also see how to pull domain-level analytics by referrer, or bulk-update UTM parameters on links you want to standardize across placements.