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n8n-nodes-flyn
This is an n8n community node. It lets you use Flyn in your n8n workflows.
Flyn is a link management platform: branded short links, QR codes, and click analytics.
n8n is a fair-code licensed workflow automation platform.
Installation
Operations
Credentials
Compatibility
Usage
Resources
Installation
Follow the installation guide in the n8n community nodes documentation.
In short: go to Settings > Community Nodes, select Install, and enter n8n-nodes-flyn.
Operations
This package ships two nodes.
Flyn
Link
- Create a short link from any destination URL, with an optional custom back-half, title, expiry, tags, password and social preview.
- Get a single link, including its click count.
- Get Many links, with search, tag, status and sort filters.
- Update an existing link, including pointing it at a new destination. The short URL stays the same, so anything already printed or posted keeps working.
- Delete a link.
QR Code
- Get the QR code for a link, as PNG or SVG, at any size from 64 to 2048 pixels. The
image comes back as binary data, so n8n previews it in the editor and you can attach it
to an email, upload it, or write it to disk without decoding anything yourself.
Flyn Trigger
Starts a workflow when something happens to a link. This is a real webhook rather than a polling interval, so it fires as the event happens.
- Link Clicked
- Link Created
- Link Updated
- Link Deleted
- Link Expired
- Domain Verified
The trigger registers a webhook with Flyn when you activate the workflow and removes it when you deactivate, so you do not have to manage subscriptions by hand.
Credentials
You need a Flyn API key.
- Sign in at flyn.to.
- Go to Settings > API Keys and create a key. It starts with
flyn_sk_live_. - In n8n, create a new Flyn API credential and paste the key.
API keys require a paid Flyn plan (Pro, Lifetime or Team). The free plan can create links in the dashboard but cannot mint an API key, so this node needs a paid account.
A few link fields are also plan-gated and will be rejected rather than ignored if your plan does not include them: custom domains, tags, passwords, click limits, cloaking, no-index, and SVG QR codes. Each of those says so in its own field description in the node.
Compatibility
Tested against n8n's current node API (n8nNodesApiVersion: 1) and Node.js 20.15 or later. The package has no runtime dependencies.
Usage
A few things that are worth knowing before you build:
Editable destinations are the point. Flyn short links keep working when you change where they point. Creating a link in n8n and updating it later, rather than minting a new one, is usually what you want for anything already published.
Get Many returns one item per link, so you can map straight into a loop or a filter without splitting the response first.
The trigger's payload is whatever Flyn posts for the event you subscribed to, passed through unchanged. Run the workflow once and look at the output to see the exact fields available for the events you picked.
Free-plan errors are readable. If a call is rejected because of your plan, the node surfaces Flyn's own message (for example, the 25 links per month cap) rather than a bare status code.
If you are new to n8n, the Try it out documentation is a good starting point.