Bitly
Bitly is a URL shortening and link management platform that enables developers and marketers to create branded short links, generate QR codes, track engagement analytics, and manage link campaigns at scale. The Bitly v4 REST API provides programmatic access to link creation, custom domains, groups, campaigns, click metrics, and QR codes using Bearer token authentication.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Bitly the way a machine reads it — 16 machine-readable artifacts across 10 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Bitly scores 38.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Bitly
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Bitly. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 10
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Bitly Bitlinks API
The Bitlinks API from Bitly — 4 operation(s) for bitlinks.
Bitly BSDs API
The BSDs API from Bitly — 1 operation(s) for bsds.
Bitly Campaigns API
The Campaigns API from Bitly — 2 operation(s) for campaigns.
Bitly Channels API
The Channels API from Bitly — 2 operation(s) for channels.
Bitly Custom Bitlinks API
The Custom Bitlinks API from Bitly — 2 operation(s) for custom bitlinks.
Bitly Group Metrics API
The Group Metrics API from Bitly — 7 operation(s) for group metrics.
Bitly Groups API
The Groups API from Bitly — 5 operation(s) for groups.
Bitly Metrics API
The Metrics API from Bitly — 8 operation(s) for metrics.
Bitly Organizations API
The Organizations API from Bitly — 4 operation(s) for organizations.
Bitly QR Codes API
The QR Codes API from Bitly — 1 operation(s) for qr codes.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Bitly API v4
OPEN COLLECTIONSecurity Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Bitly — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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