The Scenario
Your company is migrating to a new brand. The old branded domain — go.oldcompany.com — is going away in six weeks. Before anyone can decide what to keep, what to redirect, and what to retire, someone needs a full list of every alias living under that domain.
That someone is you. You open a blank Excel workbook and stare at it.
The bad version:
- Log into the Shorten.REST dashboard, navigate to the domain management section, start scrolling through the alias list.
- The dashboard shows 50 per page. You have 200 aliases. That's four pages of clicking and manually copying alias names and destination URLs into your workbook.
- Halfway through page three, you lose your place and have to start the page over.
- Finish with a workbook that you're not fully confident is complete — and with no creation dates, so you can't tell which aliases were made last month versus two years ago.
This audit was supposed to take an hour. It's now taking a morning, and the rebrand timeline hasn't moved.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook that reads your context and talks to Shorten.REST for you — including listing every alias under a domain and writing the full inventory into your workbook.
List all Shorten.REST aliases under the domain 'go.oldcompany.com' and write each alias name into column A, the destination URL into column B, and the creation date into column C. If there are more than one page of results, keep fetching until all aliases are retrieved.
What You Get
- Column A fills with every alias name under the specified domain — all pages, not just the first 50.
- Column B gets the full destination URL for each alias.
- Column C gets the creation date so you can sort by age and see what's old versus recent.
- The agent confirms the total count so you can verify the workbook is complete.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You need to filter for only active aliases
List all Shorten.REST aliases under 'go.oldcompany.com'. Write the alias name into column A and the destination URL into column B. If the destination URL returns a 404 or redirect when checked, mark it "dead" in column C. Otherwise mark it "active."
You need to cross-reference against aliases already tracked in another worksheet
List all Shorten.REST aliases under 'go.oldcompany.com' and write them into columns A and B of the Audit sheet. Then check each alias against the Known Aliases sheet in column A — mark "existing" in column C if it's already tracked, or "new" if it's not in the Known Aliases list.
You want the inventory grouped by destination domain
List all aliases under 'go.oldcompany.com' and write them into columns A and B. Then sort the results by the top-level domain of the destination URL in column B, and write the destination domain into column C so the workbook can be filtered by target site.
Full audit + status check in one shot
List all Shorten.REST aliases under 'go.oldcompany.com'. Write the alias into column A, destination URL into column B, and creation date into column C. Then flag any aliases where the destination URL domain no longer matches our current brand domain in column D as "rebrand candidate."
One prompt. The list, the dates, and the rebrand flags arrive together.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open a blank Excel workbook, then ask it to pull your full Shorten.REST alias inventory for any domain and write it into the workbook for auditing. Related: bulk-update alias destinations or bulk-delete expired aliases.