Build a self-hosted URL shortener with a dashboard

n8n template #1093

Summary

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 record and displaying them on a dashboard. Read more about this use case and how to set up the workflow in the blog post How to build a low-code, self-hosted URL shortener in 3 steps. Prerequisites A local

How to set it up

Open template #1093 on n8n.io and click Use for free, or copy the template JSON and paste it onto an empty canvas in n8n.
Create 2 credentials under Credentials → Add credential: Airtable, Crypto. Then open each of those nodes and pick the credential.
Click Execute workflow and step through each node's output to confirm the data looks right.
Toggle the workflow to Active so its trigger runs on its own.

Hand off to your agent

Prompt

Help me set up the n8n workflow "Build a self-hosted URL shortener with a dashboard" (https://n8n.io/workflows/1093). It uses: Airtable, Crypto. Import the template JSON into my n8n instance, list every credential I need to create, and walk me through testing it.

Paste into Claude Code and it will do the rest.

Apps and nodes

Airtable Crypto

Questions

Yes. mohamed ali published it free on n8n.io, and it has 5,507 views. It runs on n8n Cloud or a self-hosted n8n instance.

Airtable, Crypto. The other 0 nodes are built into n8n.

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