# Bitly MCP Server

> Lets your agent create short links and QR Codes, build link-in-bio Sites and read click and scan analytics across your Bitly account.

Bitly's own hosted MCP server brings your Bitly account into your agent: the link management you'd get from the Bitly API, website or app, asked for in plain words.

What you can do with it
- Shorten links with titles, tags, a custom back-half and your branded domain, or create a short link and its QR Code in one step
- Change where a link points, retitle, retag or archive it, delete unedited links, and look up where any Bitly link goes
- Create QR Codes and customize their colors, gradients and frames
- See clicks and scans by country, city, device, referrer and over time, for one link, one QR Code or a whole group, including clicks from AI agents
- Bulk-create links and QR Codes from a .CSV or .XLSX file, and export link or QR data as a CSV
- Build, edit and publish Bitly Sites (link-in-bio pages) from templates, with buttons, images, videos and text
- Connect a domain you own, or register your plan's complimentary domain, and set a group's default domain

How it connects
Bitly hosts it at https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp. Agents that support OAuth send you to Bitly to sign in and authorize it the first time. Others can use a Bitly API token, generated under Settings, API, as a bearer token. Bitly's setup guides cover ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Windsurf.

Good to know
- In ChatGPT you add it in Developer Mode, which needs a Plus, Team, Enterprise or Edu plan. On Claude Team and Enterprise plans, a workspace admin has to enable it.
- Some features, such as custom domains and QR Code expiry, depend on your Bitly plan.

- Type: Plugin
- Made by: Bitly
- Category: Marketing & SEO
- Formats: Remote MCP
- Version: 1.0.0
- Website: https://dev.bitly.com/bitly-mcp/
- Page: https://pluginboard.ai/plugins/bitly-mcp

## Works with

- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Muse
- Grok Bot
- Gemini
- Grok
- GitHub Copilot
- Cursor
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Antigravity
- Gemini CLI
- Replit
- OpenClaw
- OpenCode
- Hermes Agent

## Install

### ChatGPT

In ChatGPT on the web: Plugins → + → Add custom MCP server, then paste https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp under Connection. Business and Enterprise plans; Pro can add read-only servers.

### Claude

In Claude (web or desktop): Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp

### Muse

In Muse: In a Muse chat, ask it to create a custom connector for the MCP server at https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp. Then tap Connect on the card it shows and sign in, or add your key.

### Grok Bot

In Grok Bot: In a chat with your Bot, say "Add this MCP server: https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp". It confirms the details with you and sets it up, and the tools are ready from your next message.

### Gemini

In Gemini: At gemini.google.com: Settings → Connected Apps → Add a custom app, then paste https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp

### Grok

In Grok on the web: At grok.com/connectors: New Connector → Custom, then enter https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp and sign in if it asks.

### GitHub Copilot

Add to VS Code: vscode:mcp/install?%7B%22name%22%3A%22bitly-mcp-server%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22http%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fapi-ssl.bitly.com%2Fv4%2Fmcp%22%7D

Copilot CLI:

```shell
copilot mcp add --transport http bitly-mcp-server https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp
```

### Cursor

Add to Cursor: cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=bitly-mcp-server&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2FwaS1zc2wuYml0bHkuY29tL3Y0L21jcCJ9

Add to .cursor/mcp.json:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bitly-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Claude Code

Run in your terminal:

```shell
claude mcp add --transport http bitly-mcp-server https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp
```

### Codex

Run in your terminal:

```shell
codex mcp add bitly-mcp-server --url https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp
```

### Antigravity

Add to ~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bitly-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Gemini CLI

Run in your terminal:

```shell
gemini mcp add --transport http bitly-mcp-server https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp
```

### Replit

In Replit: At replit.com/integrations, open MCP Servers → + Add MCP server, paste https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp (add any headers under Advanced settings), then click Test & save.

### OpenClaw

Run in your terminal:

```shell
openclaw mcp add bitly-mcp-server --url https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

If it needs a key or sign-in: For https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp, add --header NAME=value for each header it needs, or --auth oauth and then run openclaw mcp login bitly-mcp-server.

### OpenCode

Run in your terminal:

```shell
opencode mcp add bitly-mcp-server --url https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp
```

If it needs a key: For https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp, add --header 'NAME=value' for each header it needs. Add --global to use it in every project.

### Hermes Agent

Run in your terminal:

```shell
hermes mcp add bitly-mcp-server --url https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp
```

Add to ~/.hermes/config.yaml:

```json
{
  "mcp_servers": {
    "bitly-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

If it signs in with OAuth: If https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/mcp asks you to sign in, add --auth oauth to the command, or auth: oauth to its entry.

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