Build a self-hosted URL shortener with a dashboard — n8n Workflow

High complexity🔗 Webhook26 nodes🏷️ Miscellaneous👁 5,507 viewsby mohamed ali

Overview

This workflow creates an automatic self-hosted URL shortener. It consists of three sub-workflows:

Short URL creation for extracting the provided long URL, generating an ID, and saving the record in the database. It returns a short link as a result. Redirection for extracting the ID value, validating the existence of its correspondent record in the database, and returning a redirection page after updating the visits (click) count. Dashboard for calculating simple statistics about the saved recor

Nodes used

AirtableCrypto

Workflow Preview

⚡

Webhook

Extract URL

Check URL

Crypto

Airtable

Set ID,shortUrl,longUrl

Find by ID

Already exists ?

Set Output

Set Error output

Set Output1

Set input

⚡

Webhook1

Set Error output1

Check Id

Find by ID1

Already exists ?1

Set Output2

Extract Id

404 Error

Update clicks

Prepare clicks count

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Webhook2

Find by ID2

Extract stats

Set dashboard

26 nodes23 edges

How it Works

1
Trigger
The workflow starts with a webhook trigger.
2
Process
Data flows through 26 nodes, connecting airtable, crypto, function.
3
Output
The workflow completes its automation and delivers the result to the configured destination.

Node Details (26)

Airtable

airtable

Crypto

crypto

How to Import This Workflow

1Click Download JSON button on the right to save the workflow file.
2Open your n8n instance. Go to Workflows → New → Import from file.
3Select the downloaded build-a-self-hosted-url-shortener-with-a-dashboard file and click Import.
4Set up credentials for each service node (API keys, OAuth, etc.).
5Click Test Workflow to verify everything works, then activate it.

Or paste directly in n8n → Import from JSON:

{ "name": "Build a self-hosted URL shortener with a dashboard", "nodes": [...], ...}

Integrations

airtablecryptofunctionifsetwebhook

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Nodes26

Complexityhigh

Triggerwebhook

CategoryMiscellaneous

Created by

mohamed ali

@dali

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