Turn a github.com URL into a git.io URL.

gitio

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Usage: gitio URL [CODE]
#
# Turns a github.com URL
#  into a git.io URL
#
# Copies the git.io URL to your clipboard.

url  = ARGV[0]
code = ARGV[1]

if url !~ /^(https?:\/\/)?(gist\.)?github.com/
  abort "* github.com URLs only"
end

if url !~ /^http/
  url = "https://#{url}"
end

if code
  code = "-F code=#{code}"
end

output = `curl -i http://git.io -F 'url=#{url}' #{code} 2> /dev/null`
if output =~ /Location: (.+)\n?/
  puts $1
  `echo #$1 | pbcopy`
else
  puts output
end

This will handle raw code: https://git.io/git.io and insure uniqueness -- written in Bash though.

the urls has changed. it's now a post to git.io/create but the code option no longer seems to work 😭 no more vanity urls

@branderxero are you sure /create works? Has the request structure changed in any other way? I can't get it to work. Just keeps giving me a 301 pointing to whatever URL I use.

Okay, I've had some success. /create doesn't make any difference, and you can still use the code option but the request has to be secure. https://git.io

@basicallydan Are you sure you can still use the code option? Can you provide a complete example? Because I'm finding that I can't..

@basicallydan @dwijnand - Yep seems code no longer works. A bug was reported in my library (https://github.com/tanepiper/node-gitio) and I can't get it to work with new urls (test pass because it's older urls that were set)