Yourls
· #190 most-usedYour server. Your links. Your data.
YOURLS is a self-hosted, open-source URL shortener that runs on your own domain and stores every click on your own database. Connect it to Actionist and your agent can shorten any URL in seconds, mint custom-keyword links on demand, pull per-link click stats, and delete expired redirects — all without touching the YOURLS admin panel. Every link you create stays on infrastructure you control, with analytics that no third-party shortener can revoke or paywalled.
Eliminates manual work. Eliminates the manual work of logging into the YOURLS admin panel to create, audit, and retire short links across campaigns, support tickets, and content publishes.
What your Yourls agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
Yourls × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
Support portal links, tracked from first click
When a customer emails a support question, your agent checks whether a YOURLS short URL already exists for the relevant help article, creates one if not, and fires the link into a Slack message for the support rep to share — all with click tracking intact. Every support interaction now comes with a compact, branded link the rep can paste in seconds, and the click stats reveal exactly which articles customers actually read after closing a ticket.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales18 min / weekHand-crafting prospect links
Sales reps manually open the YOURLS admin panel, create a short URL for each prospect's demo page, then copy-paste the link into their email — a 3-minute distraction per deal.
Sales Agent0 minAgent mints tracked links on demandThe agent shortens demo and pricing URLs with deal-specific keywords the moment a prospect is flagged, dropping the links directly into the outreach draft.
- Marketing13 min / weekCampaign link prep
Marketers manually create YOURLS short links for every email CTA, social post, and ad destination, then copy them into each channel tool one by one before a campaign send.
Marketing Agent0 minAgent generates campaign links at publishWhen a campaign asset publishes, the agent auto-shortens all destination URLs with campaign-code keywords and populates each channel tool with the tracked links.
- Customer Support18 min / weekCopying help article URLs
Support reps dig up the full URL of a help article, paste it into the YOURLS admin, create a short link, and then copy that into their reply — repeated for every ticket.
Customer Support Agent0 minAgent prepares tracked help links instantlyThe agent detects incoming support topics, shortens the matching help article URL, and drops the branded short link into the rep's Slack thread before they've opened the ticket.
- Human Resources7 min / weekShortening onboarding doc links
HR manually shortens links to onboarding documents and policy PDFs so they fit cleanly in welcome emails and Slack messages, without tracking whether new hires actually opened them.
Human Resources Agent0 minAgent tracks onboarding engagementThe agent shortens all onboarding document URLs with employee-specific keywords and monitors click counts, flagging any new hire who hasn't accessed required materials by day three.
- Finance13 min / weekManual payment link creation
Finance team members create a YOURLS short URL for each invoice's payment portal link, then track in a spreadsheet whether the link was clicked — an entirely manual reconciliation loop.
Finance Agent0 minAgent tracks payment link engagementThe agent creates a keyword-specific short link for each invoice, monitors click counts against payment deadlines, and flags zero-click links to finance before the due date passes.
- Operations25 min / weekQuarterly link inventory audit
Ops manually exports all YOURLS short URLs, checks each destination for 404s, identifies zero-click links, and builds a cleanup spreadsheet — a full afternoon of admin work every quarter.
Operations Agent0 minAgent runs the link audit automaticallyThe agent lists all short URLs on schedule, exports them with click counts, deletes confirmed dead links, and delivers a Notion audit page with a ready-to-action cleanup list.
- Legal6 min / weekCompliance link takedown
When legal flags a page for removal, someone has to find all short URLs pointing to it in the YOURLS admin, delete each one manually, and confirm the redirect is gone — prone to delay.
Legal Agent0 minAgent executes takedowns in secondsThe agent receives a takedown instruction, searches the YOURLS instance for all keywords pointing to the flagged destination, and deletes them immediately with a deletion receipt logged.
Calculate what your team saves
Based on Yourls's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How to plug Yourls into Actionist
Pick the connection method that suits your environment.
The fastest path to your self-hosted YOURLS instance. Install the YOURLS MCP server and the agent connects through a secure, permissioned handshake — no token juggling, no manual credential entry.
Find Yourls in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.
Enter your YOURLS instance base URL (e.g. https://yourls.example.com) and approve the MCP connection. The agent gains scoped access to your YOURLS API without storing your admin password.
Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.
15 actions your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
7 events your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.
Skills that pair with Yourls
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