Move your links from Rebrandly and keep every address working
Export your links from Rebrandly as a CSV file, upload it to ShortZen, and each link is recreated with the same slug on your own domain.
1. Export from Rebrandly
Rebrandly’s own steps, as its documentation describes them.
- Open the export script Rebrandly publishes in its developer documentation.
- Run it with an API key from your Rebrandly account.You get a CSV file of your links.
- Rebrandly’s help centre says links are exported only through its API, and points to that script.
- The analytics export under Analytics, Exports is a report of clicks, not a list of links, so it is not the file to import.
Checked against Rebrandly developers: export links to CSV on . Rebrandly may change these steps; its help centre is the authority.
2. What the importer reads
Upload the file and the format is detected. These are the Rebrandly columns it looks for.
- Destination
- Where the link goes.
- destination · destinationurl
- Slug
- Kept as it is, so the address stays the same on your domain.
- slashtag
- Title
- Carried when the file has it.
- title
- Creation date
- Carried when the file has it.
- createdat · created_at
- Total clicks
- Becomes the link’s starting count; per-day history is not carried.
- clicks
If the file is not recognised, rename its columns to destinationUrl, slug and title, and upload it again. Any service's file works in that shape.
3. Keep your addresses working
The step that decides whether printed links survive the move.
- Links on your own domain
- Verify that domain in ShortZen before you import. When its DNS points here, every address you printed or posted resolves exactly as before.
- your domain
- Links on Rebrandly’s own domain
- An address on a domain Rebrandly owns belongs to Rebrandly. The destination and title can come across, but that address stops working when you leave.
- shared domain
Which plans can import
The importer starts on Starter, and paid plans cannot be bought yet. The free plan has no migration allowance.
Each paid plan has a one-time allowance of links to bring in (Starter 2,000, Pro 10,000, Business 50,000), separate from the monthly link quota. A committed import can be undone.
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Make your workspace and verify your domain now. The importer is on paid plans, and the links you make on Free stay with you.