The Scenario
Your company relaunched its pricing page last Tuesday. The old URL is dead. You have 40 Shorten.REST aliases that all point to the old destination — they're scattered across email footers, paid ads, partner co-marketing pages, and SMS campaigns.
The list of affected aliases is already in your Excel workbook: column A has the alias names, column B has the new destination URL. Forty rows. Everything you need to fix this is right there.
The bad version:
- Log into the Shorten.REST dashboard, search for the first alias in column A, open the edit view, paste the new destination URL from column B, save.
- Repeat this 39 more times.
- Realize you can't bulk-edit in the dashboard, so the only way to do this is row by row.
- Finish an hour later, not entirely confident you didn't accidentally overwrite the wrong alias on row 23 when your browser tab refreshed mid-edit.
You're a performance marketer. Updating alias destinations manually is not something you should be billing hours toward.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook that reads your data and calls Shorten.REST for you — including bulk-updating destination URLs for a list of aliases.
For each row in my workbook, update the Shorten.REST alias in column A to use the new destination URL in column B. Preserve all existing tracking snippets. Write "updated" into column C when each change is confirmed, or "failed" if the update didn't go through.
What You Get
- Each alias in column A gets its destination URL updated to the value in column B.
- Column C gets "updated" for every row that completed successfully.
- Any alias that returned an error gets "failed" in column C, so you know exactly which ones to investigate — without re-running the whole batch.
- Existing tracking snippets and metadata on each alias are preserved.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some aliases in column A have changed names since you built the list
Before updating, verify each alias in column A still exists in Shorten.REST. Write "not found" into column C for any alias that doesn't exist, then update the remaining rows with the destination URL from column B.
You need to add a UTM tracking snippet to each destination URL before updating
For each row, append the UTM parameters in column C to the destination URL in column B, then update the Shorten.REST alias in column A to point to the combined URL. Write the final destination URL into column D.
You want to preview what will change before committing
For each alias in column A, fetch the current destination URL from Shorten.REST and write it into column C so I can compare it against the new URL in column B before I run the actual update.
Full cleanup + update in one shot
Check column B for blank cells and malformed URLs. Skip rows where column B is blank. Fix any URLs missing the
https://protocol prefix. Then update each Shorten.REST alias in column A with the cleaned destination URL from column B, and write "updated" or the error reason into column C.
Ask for the cleanup and the update together — one prompt covers both.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with a column of alias names and a column of new destination URLs, then ask it to push the updates to Shorten.REST and confirm the results. See also: bulk-create short URLs or audit your alias inventory.