--- title: "Connect Bitly and GitLab - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bitlink in Group\" fires in Bitly, your agent runs \"Add Note to Issue\" in GitLab." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-gitlab" --- # Connect Bitly and GitLab When **New Bitlink in Group** fires in [Bitly](https://apiant.ai/connections/bitly), your agent runs **Add Note to Issue** in [GitLab](https://apiant.ai/connections/gitlab), or **New Code Snippet Comment** in GitLab to **Update a QR Code** in Bitly. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Bitly **8** triggers Bitly **25** actions GitLab **21** triggers GitLab **62** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Bitly and GitLab to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Bitly and GitLab can do together ### From Bitly to GitLab - When **New Bitlink in Group** in Bitly then **Add Note to Issue** in GitLab - When **New Branded Short Domain** in Bitly then **Create Issue** in GitLab ### From GitLab to Bitly - When **New Code Snippet Comment** in GitLab then **Update a QR Code** in Bitly - When **New Commit** in GitLab then **Update a User** in Bitly Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Bitly and GitLab ## Triggers and actions 29 triggers · 87 actions - Trigger **New Bitlink in Group** Triggers when a new Bitlink appears in the group. - Trigger **New Branded Short Domain** Triggers when a new branded short domain is added. - Trigger **New Channel** Triggers when a new channel is created. - Trigger **New Group** Triggers when a new group is created. - Trigger **New Organization** Triggers when a new organization is created. - Trigger **New QR Code in Group** Triggers when a new QR code appears in the group. - Trigger **New Sorted Bitlink in Group** Triggers when a new Bitlink appears in the group's sorted ranking. - Trigger **New Tag in Group** Triggers when a new tag appears in the group. - Action **Add Custom Bitlink** create a custom (branded) Bitlink - Action **Bulk update bitlinks** bulk update Bitlinks in a group - Action **Create an inline CSV export for a group** create an inline CSV export for a group - Action **Create Bitlink** Shortens a long URL into a Bitlink. Optionally set a title and a branded custom domain. - Action **Delete a Bitlink** delete a Bitlink - Action **Expand Bitlink** Returns the long destination URL for a Bitlink ID. - Action **Generate a static QR Code image** generate a static QR code image - Action **Get Group Limit Usage** Returns a Bitly group's current feature limit usage, with the count used for each limit. - Action **Get Plan Limits** Returns all plan limits and their current usage counts for a Bitly organization. - Action **Get Platform Limits** Returns the organization's platform limits and current usage counts per API endpoint. - Action **Get QR Code Image** Fetches a QR code's rendered image by QR code ID. The image is saved to APIANT temporary storage and returned as a file reference, so it can be emailed, uploaded or attached in a later step. An error occurs if the QR code is not found. - Action **Get Top Links and QR Codes by Engagement** Returns a group's top-performing bitlinks and decoupled QR codes ranked by engagement count over a chosen reporting window. - Action **Retrieve Bitlink** Fetches the details of a single Bitlink by its ID. - Action **Retrieve Custom Bitlink** Returns the Bitlink that a custom (branded) short link points to, along with that Bitlink's details — destination URL, title, tags, and created timestamp. An error occurs if the custom Bitlink is not found. - Action **Retrieve Group** Fetches a single Bitly group (workspace) by its GUID, returning the group's name, organization, role, status, and branded short domains. An error occurs if the group is not found. - Action **Retrieve Group Preferences** Fetches the preferences for a single Bitly group (workspace) by its GUID, returning the group's default short domain. An error occurs if the group is not found. - Action **Retrieve Organization** Fetches a single Bitly organization by its GUID, returning the organization's name, subscription tier, role, status, and branded short domains. An error occurs if the organization is not found. - Action **Retrieve QR Code** Returns the details of a single QR code by its ID — title, the Bitlink and destination URLs it encodes, its type, tags, and created/updated timestamps. This returns the QR code's information only, not the scannable image file; use Get QR Code Image for that. An error occurs if the QR code is not found. - Action **Retrieve User** Returns the Bitly user account the connection is authenticated as, including its login, name, email addresses, activity flags and default group. - Action **Shorten a Link** shorten a long URL into a Bitlink - Action **Update a Group** update a group - Action **Update a QR Code** update a QR code - Action **Update a User** update the authenticated user - Action **Update Bitlink** Updates a Bitlink's title, tags, or archived state. - Action **Update Group Preferences** update group preferences - Trigger **Deployment Event (instant)** Fires on a deployment status change (deployment_events). - Trigger **New Code Snippet Comment** Triggers when a new comment is made on a code snippet in the selected project - Trigger **New Commit** Triggers when a new commit is pushed to a GitLab project's repository. - Trigger **New Commit Comment** Triggers when a new comment is made on a commit in the selected project - Trigger **New Group Issue Event** Triggers on group issue events, e.g. when an issue is opened, updated, or closed. - Trigger **New Group Merge Request Event** Triggers on an open, merge, close, or update merge request event. - Trigger **New Issue** Triggers when a new issue is created in a GitLab project. - Trigger **New Issue Comment** Triggers when a new comment is made on an issue in the selected project - Trigger **New Job Event** Triggers for a specified job event in a project. - Trigger **New Merge Request** Triggers when a new merge request is opened in a GitLab project. - Trigger **New Merge Request Comment** Triggers when a new comment is made on a merge request in the selected project - Trigger **New Pipeline** Triggers when a new CI/CD pipeline is created in a GitLab project. - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new GitLab project is created that the connected user can see. - Trigger **New Project Issue Event** Triggers on project issue events, e.g. when an issue is opened, updated, or closed. - Trigger **New Project Merge Request Event** Triggers on an open, merge, close, or update merge request event. - Trigger **New Release** Triggers when a new release is created in a GitLab project. - Trigger **New Release (instant)** Fires when a release is created or updated (releases_events). - Trigger **New Tag** Triggers when a new tag is added to a GitLab project's repository. - Trigger **New Tag (instant)** Fires when a tag is pushed (tag_push_events). - Trigger **Pipeline Event (instant)** Fires on a pipeline status change (pipeline_events). - Trigger **Wiki Page Event (instant)** Fires when a wiki page is created or updated (wiki_page_events). - Action **Accept Merge Request** Merges an open merge request into its target branch, optionally squashing commits, deleting the source branch, or setting it to merge automatically once checks pass. - Action **Add Comment to Commit** Adds a comment to a commit in a GitLab project, optionally on a specific line of a file. - Action **Add Note to Issue** Adds a comment to an issue in a GitLab project. - Action **Add Note to Merge Request** Adds a comment to a merge request in a GitLab project. - Action **Add Note to Snippet** Adds a comment to a project snippet in GitLab and returns the created comment. - Action **Approve Merge Request** Approves a merge request as the connected GitLab user and returns the merge request's updated approval state. - Action **Cancel Pipeline** Cancels all running and pending jobs in a GitLab pipeline and returns the pipeline with its updated status. - Action **Create Branch** Creates a new branch in a GitLab project's repository from an existing branch or commit. - Action **Create Commit** Creates a commit on a branch of a GitLab project, applying a batch of file changes (create, update, delete, move, chmod). - Action **Create File** Creates a new file in a GitLab project's repository by committing it to a branch. - Action **Create Issue** Creates a new issue in a GitLab project, with optional description, labels, assignees, milestone and due date. - Action **Create Label** Creates a label in a GitLab project with the name and color you choose. - Action **Create Merge Request** Creates a new merge request in a GitLab project from a source branch to a target branch. - Action **Create Milestone** Creates a milestone in a GitLab project, with an optional description, start date and due date. - Action **Create Pipeline** Starts a new CI/CD pipeline on a branch or tag of a GitLab project, optionally with pipeline variables and inputs. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new GitLab project in your personal namespace or in a group you choose. - Action **Create Release** Creates a release in a GitLab project from an existing tag, or from a branch or commit that is tagged as part of the release. - Action **Create Snippet** Creates a personal snippet with a title and one file of content in your GitLab account. - Action **Create Tag** Creates a new Git tag in a GitLab project pointing at a branch, commit or existing tag. Add a message to make it an annotated tag. - Action **Create Wiki Page** Creates a new wiki page in a GitLab project with the given title and content. - Action **Delete Branch** Deletes a branch from a GitLab project's repository. The default branch and protected branches cannot be deleted. - Action **Delete File** Deletes a file from a GitLab project's repository by committing its removal to a branch. - Action **Delete Issue** Deletes an issue from a GitLab project. Only administrators and project owners can delete issues. - Action **Delete Tag** Deletes a tag from a GitLab project's repository. - Action **Find Group Merge Requests** Returns merge requests across a GitLab group and its subgroups, filtered by state, author, assignee, reviewer, labels, milestone, branch, dates or search text. - Action **Find Project Merge Requests** Finds merge requests in a GitLab project, filtered by text search, state, author, assignee, reviewer, labels, branches, dates and more. - Action **Find Projects** Finds GitLab projects whose name, path or description matches your search text, optionally narrowed by membership, ownership, visibility, topic and activity dates. - Action **Find User** Finds GitLab users by username, public email, or a name/username/email search, with optional filters on account state and type. - Action **Get Branch** Returns a repository branch in a GitLab project, including its protection status, merge status and latest commit. - Action **Get Commit** Returns a single commit from a project's repository, identified by its SHA or by a branch or tag name, including stats and the latest pipeline. - Action **Get File** Returns a file from a GitLab repository, including its name, size, commit details and Base64-encoded content. - Action **Get Group** Returns the details of a GitLab group, such as its name, path, visibility and parent group. - Action **Get Issue** Returns a single issue in a GitLab project, including its title, description, state, labels, assignees and milestone. - Action **Get Job** Returns a single CI/CD job in a GitLab project, including its status, stage, pipeline, commit and runner details. - Action **Get Merge Request** Returns a single merge request in a GitLab project, including its state, branches, author, reviewers and pipeline. - Action **Get Merge Request Approvals** Returns the approval state of a merge request: whether it is approved, who approved it, and how many approvals are still required. - Action **Get Pipeline** Returns a single CI/CD pipeline in a project, including its status, ref, commit, timing and who triggered it. - Action **Get Project** Returns a single GitLab project by its ID or full path, including its settings, visibility and links. - Action **Get Release** Returns a project's release for the given Git tag, including its description, commit, milestones and assets. - Action **Get Snippet** Returns a personal snippet by its ID, including its title, file name, visibility, author and links. - Action **Get Snippet Note** Returns a single comment (note) posted on a project snippet. - Action **Get Wiki Page** Returns a wiki page from a GitLab project, including its title, content and format. - Action **List Branches** Returns the branches in a GitLab project's repository, sorted by name, optionally filtered by a search term or regular expression. - Action **List Commit Comments** Returns the comments left on a commit in a GitLab project. - Action **List Commits** Returns the commits in a GitLab project's repository, optionally filtered by branch, author, file path or date range. - Action **List Groups** Returns the GitLab groups visible to the connected user, optionally filtered by name, visibility, ownership or access level. - Action **List Labels** Returns the labels defined for a GitLab project, optionally filtered by keyword and including issue and merge request counts. - Action **List Milestones** Returns the milestones of a GitLab project, optionally filtered by state, title, search text or dates. - Action **List Pipelines** Returns the pipelines in a GitLab project, optionally filtered by branch, status, commit, date range or user. - Action **List Project Jobs** Returns the CI/CD jobs in a project, newest first, optionally filtered to one job status such as success or failed. - Action **List Project Members** Returns the direct members of a GitLab project, optionally filtered by name, email or username. - Action **List Releases** Returns the releases of a GitLab project, newest first by release date. - Action **List Tags** Returns the Git tags in a GitLab project's repository, optionally filtered by name and sorted. - Action **Retry Job** Retries a single CI/CD job in a GitLab project and returns the new job that was queued. - Action **Retry Pipeline** Retries the failed or canceled jobs in a GitLab pipeline and returns the updated pipeline. - Action **Update File** Updates the content of an existing file in a GitLab repository by committing the change to a branch. - Action **Update Issue** Updates an existing issue in a GitLab project, including closing or reopening it, changing its title, description, labels, assignees, milestone or dates. - Action **Update Merge Request** Updates an existing merge request in a GitLab project — title, description, assignees, reviewers, labels, milestone, target branch or state. - Action **Update Milestone** Updates a project milestone's title, description, dates, or open/closed state. - Action **Update Project** Updates an existing GitLab project's name, description, visibility, default branch, topics, merge settings and feature visibility. Returns the updated project. - Action **Update Release** Updates an existing release's name, description, milestones or release date in a GitLab project. - Action **Update Wiki Page** Updates the title, content or format of an existing wiki page in a GitLab project. ## Each app on its own - [ **Bitly** Bitly is a link-management platform for shortening, branding, and tracking URLs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/bitly) - [ **GitLab** GitLab is an open source code collaboration tool with a rich feature set including management of...](https://apiant.ai/connections/gitlab) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Bitly - [ **Bitly to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-hubspot) - [ **Bitly to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-salesforce) - [ **Bitly to Mailchimp** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-mailchimp) - [ **Bitly to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-stripe) - [ **Bitly to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-shopify) - [ **Bitly to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-quickbooks-online) ## More into GitLab - [ **ActiveCampaign to GitLab** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-gitlab) - [ **Airtable to GitLab** Organize anything with Airtable, a modern database created for everyone.](https://apiant.ai/connect/airtable-to-gitlab) - [ **Asana to GitLab** Asana is a collaborative information manager for workspace.](https://apiant.ai/connect/asana-to-gitlab) - [ **ClickUp to GitLab** ClickUp is an all-in-one app to plan, track, and manage your work in a beautifully intuitive environment.](https://apiant.ai/connect/clickup-to-gitlab) - [ **Discord to GitLab** Discord is an all-in-one voice and text chat for gamers.](https://apiant.ai/connect/discord-to-gitlab) - [ **Freshdesk to GitLab** Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer support and helpdesk platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/freshdesk-to-gitlab) Questions ## Bitly and GitLab, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Bitly? Any of Bitly's 8 triggers in the catalog, including New Bitlink in Group, New Branded Short Domain, New Channel and New Group. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in GitLab when something happens in Bitly? Any of GitLab's 62 actions, including Create Branch, Create Commit, Create File and Create Issue. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from GitLab to Bitly? Yes. When something happens in GitLab, your agent can act in Bitly too. This page covers both directions: GitLab's triggers and Bitly's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Bitly or GitLab? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Bitly and GitLab without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.