# Connect OpenAI dots to LotsLink

Canonical page: https://lots.link/agents/openai-dots
Steps checked: 2026-10-01

Ask OpenAI dots to create your short links, make QR codes and read click analytics in LotsLink. Use the LotsLink REST API from OpenAI dots’s computer with an API key.

MCP server URL: https://api.lots.link/mcp
REST API docs: https://api.lots.link/docs
Setup instructions for your agent: https://lots.link/skill.md

## What you can do once connected

- Create and edit short links with custom slugs, UTM parameters and expiry dates, on lots.link or your own verified domain.
- Make a QR code for any link.
- Organize links into projects and switch several links on or off at once.
- Read click analytics by link or workspace, and export CSV or JSON.
- Add custom domains and manage workspaces and teammates, in your role.

The LotsLink dashboard does the whole job too: links, QR codes, projects, domains, analytics and team. Your agent for speed, the dashboard for control.

## You need

- A ChatGPT account with dots access
- A cloud or connected computer available to your dot
- A LotsLink API key
- A LotsLink account. You can create one during sign-in.

## Connect OpenAI dots to LotsLink

1. **Create your LotsLink API key.** Sign in to the LotsTech API page and create an API key. Your dot will use it to access LotsLink.

```
https://www.lotstech.com/api
```

2. **Give your dot the API instructions.** Ask your dot to use the REST API from its computer. Share the prompt below, then provide the key privately in the task environment, rather than in the conversation.

```
Use https://api.lots.link/docs to connect LotsLink from your computer. Read the API reference, authenticate with my privately configured LOTSLINK_API_KEY and list my LotsLink workspaces. Never include the key in messages or logs.
```

3. **Give your dot the brief.** Tell your dot what to work on in LotsLink. For recurring work, put the brief in the dot’s instructions. Start with read-only requests, then let it make changes.

## What to ask next

- “Shorten https://example.com/spring-sale as spring-sale with utm_source newsletter.”
- “Make a QR code for the spring-sale link so I can print it on the flyer.”
- “Which of my links got the most clicks this week, and from which countries?”

## Questions and troubleshooting

### How do I connect OpenAI dots to LotsLink?

Use the LotsLink REST API from OpenAI dots’s computer. Create an API key at https://www.lotstech.com/api, configure it privately for the task and share https://api.lots.link/docs with your agent. Ask it for something read-only first.

### Does LotsLink include its own always-on agent?

Your dot handles the recurring work. This guide connects its computer to the LotsLink REST API. LotsLink holds your short links, QR codes, domains and click analytics and returns results to your dot.

### Do I need an API key to use LotsLink with OpenAI dots?

Yes. Create one at https://www.lotstech.com/api and keep it out of chats, logs and committed files. Where OpenAI dots offers sign-in, use that instead.

### What does LotsLink cost?

Current plans and prices are on https://lots.link/pricing. Your agent’s own plan or usage fees are separate.

### Can I change where a printed QR code goes?

Yes. Your agent changes the link’s destination and the short URL and QR code stay the same, so printed codes keep working and keep counting scans. The change reaches every visitor at once.

### Can my agent delete my links?

When you ask it to. Switching a link off is the choice you can undo; deleting is permanent and removes the link’s click statistics and QR codes. Your agent works in your role: members change their own links, owners and admins change any link, and viewers read only.

### What do the click analytics include?

Recorded visits by link or workspace, with source, device and approximate location when available. Known bots, previews and prefetches are not counted.

### My dot cannot access the API key

The dot’s cloud computer has its own environment. A key saved on your laptop is not automatically available there. Open the assigned computer or use a connected local computer, and configure the key privately for the task.

## Sources

- [OpenAI: computers and apps for dots](https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/dots/computers-and-apps)
- [OpenAI: dot tasks and memory](https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/dots/tasks-and-memory)