How to use shorten GitHub URLs and create vanity URLs
on November 10, 2017 at 01:12 am

Suppose you want to shorten the URL to a particular location on GitHub, (the service for shorting URLs only works with Github URLs, so you cannot use it to external sites). Or perhaps you want to create a vanity URL that goes directly to your GitHub profile, e.g. git.io/19cah. You can use Git.io: GitHub URL Shortener.
To shorten a URL, open your command prompt (via Git Shell) and type in
$ curl -i https://git.io -F "url=https://github.com/19cah" -F "code=19cah"
Where
-F "code=vanity"
For example 19cah
, that is my Github username, but you can use whatever you want.
Then you will recive in the response your shorten URL!
Location: https://git.io/v5hxi
To create a vanity URL to your profile or URL you need to add #
at the end of your profile or the url,
$ curl -i https://git.io -F "url=https://github.com/19cah#" -F "code=19cah"
Now you’ll recive in the respose
Location https://git.io/19cah
And that’s all
Check some of the shorteners that I own redirecting to my profile:
You can use it to shorten your repositories, so it will be easy to share.