URL Shortener by Zapier – shortening URLs in your Zaps

If you want to make long and untidy Uniform Resource Locator (URL) strings shorter and easier on the eye, you can use the URL Shortener by Zapier built-in app. This is especially useful if you have text length restrictions in the app you’re sending the URL to and if you want the URL to be displayed in a neater format. URLs are generated with a zpr.io/ prefix and a unique alphanumeric suffix. This works similarly to shortened URLs generated using Bitly.

Here are a few examples of when you can use the URL Shortener by Zapier app:

• Sending a shortened URL in an SMS or when you post a tweet to Twitter. They both have text limit restrictions.
• Sending an email to a customer with a link to a web page with a long URL.
• Adding the shortened URLs of new blog articles to Airtable.

URL Shortener by Zapier can only be used as an action step with the Shorten URL action event.

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