LinkShift API keys: automate redirect operations without leaving your workflow
Announcing organization-scoped API keys in LinkShift with per-key rate limits, paid-plan API access, and full endpoint coverage for redirect resources.
Quick comparison
| Area | LinkShift | Manual dashboard-only redirect workflow |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication scope | Organization-level API keys with explicit lifecycle controls | Dashboard-only manual changes |
| Rate limiting | Per-key request limits by plan (Basic: 10/min, Pro: 50/min) | No API limiter because there is no key-based API channel |
| Operational model | Use API for domains, redirect rules, link maps, and tests | Manual updates in UI only |
| Key lifecycle | Create, rotate expiry, and delete with immediate invalidation | No key lifecycle available |
| Security boundary | API keys cannot access auth, user, billing, or key-management endpoints | N/A |
What is new in LinkShift API support
You can now manage core redirect resources directly from your own systems using API keys.
This covers the same operational areas teams typically automate first: domain inventory, redirect rules, link maps, and redirect test scenarios.
Security-first by design
API keys are attached to organizations, which matches how LinkShift teams operate in shared workspaces.
Each key has an optional expiration and can be revoked immediately. After update or delete, cached key auth data is invalidated to stop usage right away.
- Per-key rate limiting, not just per organization
- Paid-plan gate for API usage on every key-authenticated request
- Strict endpoint separation: no auth/billing/user or API-key-management access from API keys
Operational guidance
Use short-lived keys whenever possible and keep one key per integration so limits and revocation are isolated.
For complex redirect logic, keep using redirect rule and link map validation workflows to prevent unsafe deployments.
When the competitor may be a better choice
- When your team intentionally wants to avoid any API automation and manage all changes manually.
- When there is no need to integrate redirects with CI/CD, release orchestration, or external control planes.
Sources
Want to test these scenarios on your own domain?
In LinkShift, you connect a domain and get HTTPS, hierarchical rules, and link maps for large-scale key mapping.