GitHub URLs

About

GitHub provides a service for shortening URLs.

It works GitHub-based domains:

• github.com
• raw.githubusercontent.com
• github.io

Usage

Go to this site:

• git.io

Enter your URL and press the Shorten button.

Examples

You can shorten install instructions. Remember to add -L to follow redirects.

-curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichaelCurrin/auto-tag/master/autotag
+curl -L https://git.io/JEULW > autotag

Either way, make it easy for someone to click your URL and view the content of the install script, to build trust that they aren’t installing something unwanted or malicious.

• git.io/JEULW

Or get a short URL for a GitHub Pages site. Maybe you send it to someone. Or you add it to the URL section in the metadata of your repo.

-https://michaelcurrin.github.io
+https://git.io/JEUtj

More info

There’s a blog post in 2011 about this service and how to create short URLs using shell commands for API calls.