The Scenario
It's a Tuesday afternoon and your Slack has a message from the VP of Marketing: "Our Short.io dashboard is a mess. There are hundreds of links from discontinued product pages that are creating confusion when the team searches for current campaign links. Can you clean it up?"
You have 140 short links from discontinued product pages already identified and their IDs listed in a Google Sheet in column A. The links point to pages that no longer exist. You need to permanently delete them.
The bad version:
- Open Short.io, navigate to each link ID one at a time
- Confirm the deletion individually for each link — Short.io prompts for confirmation on each delete action
- Get through 60 links, close the tab by accident, and have to figure out which of the 140 you've already deleted because there's no "recently deleted" log you can reference
This is a housekeeping task that shouldn't take more than 15 minutes. The confirmation-per-link flow in the dashboard turns it into two hours of clicks.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the link IDs from column A and calls the Short.io bulk delete endpoint — processing all 140 links in one operation rather than 140 individual clicks.
Permanently delete all Short.io link IDs listed in column A of my sheet using the bulk delete endpoint, then write "deleted" into column B for each completed row
What You Get
- All 140 links submitted to Short.io's bulk delete endpoint in one call
- Column B shows "deleted" for each successfully removed link
- Any link ID that returns an error (already deleted, not found, permission issue) surfaces a note in column B rather than silently failing
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want to verify each link still exists before permanently deleting it
Some links may have already been deleted by another team member last week.
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 row where column A is blank
Some rows in the sheet are marked "review first" and shouldn't be deleted yet
The operations team flagged 12 links as needing review before deletion.
For each link ID in column A where column C is NOT marked "review first", permanently delete the Short.io link and write "deleted" in column B — for rows marked "review first", skip the deletion and write "skipped" in column B
You need to record the destination URL before deleting
Legal wants a log of what each link pointed to before removal.
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 documentation plus bulk deletion in one shot
For each link ID in column A where column C is not marked "review first", retrieve the destination URL and write it into column B, retrieve the link title and write it 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 legal has a complete deletion log.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet 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 instead if you need to keep them recoverable, or pull click stats before deleting to make sure none of them are still getting traffic.