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- Create expiring or future short links with Zapier
At a request by our customer we’ve added a new cool feature to our Zapier integration: the ability to create future or expiring short links!
- once.to ♥️ Zapier
Ho ho ho, this Christmas brings our collaboration with Zapier to a whole new level! We’re excited to announce our Zapier integration (which we introduced half a year ago) is out of beta! This…
- Expanding Event Streams
A while ago we’ve presented the Event stream, a unique feature that allows you to fulfil your curiosity and observe how your short links get clicked, in real time. Today, we’re expanding…
- Export your links and domains
Yet another long-awaited feature has landed in once.to: data export. From now on you can easily export all your data into a CSV file. You can also export only a subset of it by applying a filter.
- Trigger Zapier flows from once.to
Our integrations team has enhanced the recently announced Zapier integration with a short link trigger. Now, besides executing an action on once.to (Create Short Link) in a zap, you can also trigger a…
- Link tags
Humans are highly organized beings. Well, at least, some of us are. My wife for one loves sorting stuff into dedicated, labelled boxes. She claims it’s just easier to handle things when they are…
- Canned targeting rules
According to our polls, most people are interested in very straightforward targeting rules, such as: Redirect iPhone users to Apple App Store; Redirect Android users to Google Play Market; Redirect…
- Zapier integrations and API
An amazing news: we have just landed a new connector for Zapier! once.to is now open to integrate with 5,000+ applications listed on the Zapier platform. This became possible thanks to another bit of…
- Eventful links
Sometimes you just can’t help being curious. Why are oranges round? Why is the universe expanding? Why didn’t you invest all the money you had in AAPL 30 years ago? And what is that red…
- One Year On: Meet Teams
Today is a big day for us: it’s been exactly one year since we announced our first publicly available beta version! A lot has happened since: we sustained scammer attacks, added rule engine,…
- On shepherding domains
If you own a flock of shortener domains, it’s often the case you mark a special one out of them; you love it and use it for most of your short links. Here’s a good news: today we announce…
- Make clones not war
Have you already built your perfect short link, with a bunch of UTM parameters and a zillion of smart rules? Creating and properly configuring a short link can require quite an effort and be…
- Side that bar: navigation unified
As our world’s best link shortener once.to picks up in popularity, we’re observing an ever-increasing share of users accessing our web application using mobile devices: tablets and,…
- Sharing is caring
If you’re using a URL shortener, chances are you share your links a lot. The convenience of sharing is arguably the strongest motivation for shortening links. Today we introduce an extended set…
- Rules revisited
Our smart link rule editor introduced a while ago, though powerful, may seem unwieldy and overwhelming at first because of all possible criteria displayed at once. From now on, this will no longer be…
- Bookmarklets: short link in a click
We proudly announce our first browser integration: the so-called bookmarklets. A bookmarklet is a specially prepared bookmark for your browser that, when clicked, submits the page you’re…
- URL Explorer
A brand new tool has landed in once.to: the URL Explorer, a unique combination of power and simplicity that allows anyone to unveil what’s hidden behind the scenes of browsing! Even better, the…
- Enhanced statistics is here
once.to is back in the new season, with lots of under-the-hood improvements and new exciting plans! Stats by slug One of the most wanted features is a new dimension in the link statistics called…
- Redirect unwrapping & Abuse reports
August is here, and we’re back with a couple of improvements to safeguard once.to’s users against scammers. This comes as a follow-up to our previous post, which highlighted the issue of…
- How much is the phish?
What a month! As soon as we went live and started getting user traction, we at once.to got confronted with an unexpected problem. Pretty soon we’ve discovered that our super-fast,…
- Be social: login via Google, Facebook, Twitter
Signing up with a service is always a bit of a hassle: you need to type in your email, come up with a password, then spend awhile choosing a password that’s actually accepted. Some services…
- Better than beta
A big day for the world’s fastest URL shortener: once.to carries no “beta” label as of today! After three months in the public beta mode, no major shortcomings have been identified,…
- Taming time
It’s been about nine months since the first brick has been laid into the foundation of once.to — and almost three since we entered the public beta. Our policy has always been openness and…
- Use Them Man! UTM parameters and their friends
UTM parameters are ubiquitous on today’s Internet. You must have seen those awkward-looking tokens like utm_source and utm_medium in URLs you came across. They are so popular that they’ve…
- Maintaining the HTTP status quo
Short links have just got better! If you’ve been in the short-link business a while, you must have heard of things like permanent and temporary redirect. Those who are good with numbers can also…
- On the subject of QR codes
These days you find QR codes everywhere: in brochures and newspapers, on clothes and kitchenware, on walls and windows, and even on lawns. Some of them are neat and small and some huge and unwieldy.…
- Shall we start over again?
Sometimes you just need to undo all you’ve done and start over again, from scratch. From a blank slate. A tabula rasa. It may not always be possible (hardly ever is, actually), but at least we…
- Smart links and link rules
URL shortening will never be the same. Today we at once.to announce a massive feature that has just been rolled out: smart links! This new feature opens limitless possibilities of tailoring the…
- Password-protected links
Another feature landed in the once.to web application: short link passwords. By assigning a password to a link you can now limit the audience that can use it.
- Dashboard improvements for small screens
once.to dashboard has got a small facelift which makes it a bit easier to manage on a small screen, like a mobile phone. This is how the Dashboard looked like previously on a narrow screen:
- Ignoring bots in short link statistics
A new feature has landed in the once.to web application: an option for ignoring clicks from bots in link statistics. What is it useful for?
- Stripe payment provider integration
Five days into our public beta availability, we’re happy to announce once.to’s integration with Stripe is complete!
- And… we're live!
Our shiny new blog is now live! Yesterday, we’ve celebrated once.to entering the public beta phase and made an announcement about our upcoming blog.
- Hello, World's fastest link shortener
Even though it’s April 1st, I have some serious story for you today! It’s about what I’ve been up to for the last six months, which has been a pretty busy, interesting, and…
- Create expiring or future short links with Zapier