The Scenario
You're a content strategist. Three campaigns ago, someone on the team created multiple Short.io short links pointing to the same landing page URL — different placements, different UTM strings — and now no one can remember which placement actually drove the most traffic to that page. Your sheet has the landing page URL in cell A1 and the domain ID in cell B1. You need to find every Short.io alias ever created for that URL and compare their click counts.
The bad version:
- Open Short.io and try to search by destination URL — realize the UI filters by short path, not by original URL
- Switch to the Short.io API documentation, find the endpoint to list links by original URL, try to run it manually or find a way to export the results
- Spend 45 minutes in API docs and get a JSON response you then have to parse and paste into the sheet by hand
The person who built the original campaigns is no longer on the team. The UTM naming convention they used is different from what the team uses now. And the only way to reconcile which placement worked is to trace every alias back to the same landing page and compare clicks.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. 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 sheet.
Find all Short.io short links created from the original URL in cell A1 within the domain ID in cell B1, then list each short URL and its click count in columns A and B starting at row 3
What You Get
- Starting at row 3, column A fills with each short URL alias created for that original destination
- Column B shows the total click count for each alias
- Results are sorted descending by click count so the highest-performing placement is immediately visible at the top
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You also need to see the UTM parameters for each alias
The team needs to know which placement (organic, email, paid) each alias represents.
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 A, click count in column B, UTM source in column C, UTM medium in column D, and UTM campaign in column E starting at row 3
You want to search across multiple landing pages at once
You have five landing page URLs in column A rows 1 through 5 and need to find all aliases for each one.
For each URL in column A rows 1 through 5, find all Short.io aliases on domain ID 142540 and list each alias, its origin URL, and its click count in columns C, D, and E — group results by source URL
You need to filter out links created before a certain date
The team only wants to see links from the last two campaigns (created after September 1, 2025).
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 A, click count in column B, creation date in column C, and UTM campaign in column D starting at row 3
Full 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 A through F starting at row 3, sorted descending by click count — then write a one-row summary at the top showing total clicks across all aliases
One prompt produces a full placement attribution table for the content review.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet where you're trying to trace performance back to a specific destination URL — then ask it to find every Short.io alias and their click counts. Also see how to pull domain-level analytics by referrer to understand traffic sources more broadly, or bulk-update the UTM parameters on links you want to standardize.