Short links and link stripping

When a post goes out, SociaHive can replace each link in it with a short link of its own, https://www.sociahive.com/l/<code>, that sends people on to your page and counts the clicks per day.

When links are shortened

Choose once in Content scheduler › Manage › Short links:

The answer you give on a post is kept with the post and wins over the setting.

• Links are shortened when the post is published, not while you edit it. Each account the post goes to gets its own short link, so clicks are counted per account.
• A publish that is retried sends exactly the same text, with the same short links.
• Links already made by SociaHive (/l/ and /r/) are left as they are.
• A link to a private or internal address, or one that is not http or https, is not shortened.
• X Articles, stories and "remind me to post" posts are never changed.
• The length check when you schedule counts a short link wherever it is longer than the link you wrote, so a post accepted then is never too long when it goes out.

Clicks from link previews and crawlers are not counted, and nothing about the visitor is stored.

Removing links

In the composer, Remove links takes links out of the post and its thread parts on the platforms you tick (off everywhere by default). On Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube the first link goes in the first comment when the post has none; on other platforms the link is dropped, and the composer says so. A post that would be left empty keeps its link.

Through the API, set the target metadata strip_links: "true" (and shorten_links: "true" or "false" for the per-post answer).

REST API

GET /api/v1/posts/{id}/link-clicks (scope posts:read):

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "post_id": "6710f0c2a1b2c3d4e5f60718",
    "links": [
      {
        "post_link_id": "6710f0c2a1b2c3d4e5f60719",
        "code": "aB3dE5gH",
        "target_key": "instagram:6710f0c2a1b2c3d4e5f60720",
        "destination_url": "https://shop.example.com/drop",
        "total": 42,
        "daily": [{ "day": "2026-10-15", "clicks": 12 }]
      }
    ]
  }
}

daily covers the last 30 UTC days, oldest first.

MCP and CLI

• Tool get_post_link_clicks (postId) returns each short link with its destination, total and last 30 days.
• sociahive posts clicks <postId>