Scheduling redirects

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Ideally, I would like to manage redirects on select Webflow CMS pages through the automations I have set up in Pipedream. So for instance, in April we have a redirect to a spring sales page, then when we’ve sold out the workflow removes the redirect. Is this possible through Cloudflare or Webflow (non-enterprise) subscription?

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Mucho thanks!

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If I understand what you’re trying to do, redirects / rewrite is an overly complex way to do this.

If you have e.g. 1000 CMS items, why not have a special static page, e.g. at /special, drop a collection list on it and filter it to the one item you have flagged as “Special”.

That way it can appear in Google SERPS as well rather than getting redirected somewhere else.

If there’s a reason you need to do an automated redirect approach;

  • I haven’t seen any redirects support in Webflow’s API.
  • If your site is proxied by Cloudflare, you could do that but it requires a bit of a special setup to do it right.
  • On CF you could also build a reverse proxy to rewrite the page content rather than redirecting it
  • Another option might be to use the Webflow API, change the slug of the CMS item to /special, and then republish the site.
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Wow thank you for the great ideas! I really appreciate it, especially since my question was a little muddy. The last point is easy to implement so I’ll give it a go.