Hosted "Go-Links" via Git and GitHub Pages
pip install gitlinks

Jump to setup | By @logan_engstrom

gitlinks is a command line tool that maps custom shortlinks to URLs via Git and GitHub Pages . The following table shows example mappings for user lengstrom's gitlinks repository goto:

Here, anyone can access the zoom link (https://mit.zoom.us/j/95091088705) at http://loganengstrom.com/goto/zoom (since the GitHub pages site lengstrom.github.io maps to loganengstrom.com). We can also organize keys through nesting, such as with classes/NLP.

gitlinks works by storing state on GitHub and rendering structured redirects on GitHub pages. Add, remove, and visualize link mappings through the command line!

$ gitlinks set zoom https://mit.zoom.us/j/95091088705
  => Success: Set key "zoom" → "https://mit.zoom.us/j/95091088705".

$ gitlinks delete zoom
  => Success: Deleted key "zoom".

$ gitlinks show
=> Checking for changes from remote...
== GitLinks (Remote: [email protected]:lengstrom/goto.git) ==
calendly                 →   https://calendly.com/loganengstrom
classes/18.102           →   http://math.mit.edu/~rbm/18-102-S17/
classes/6.005            →   http://web.mit.edu/6.031/www/fa18/general/
ffcv_slack               →   https://ffcv-workspace.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-11olgvyfl-dfFerPxlm6WtmlgdMuw_2A#/shared-invite/email
papers/bugsnotfeatures   →   https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02175
zombocom                 →   https://www.zombo.com
zoom                     →   https://mit.zoom.us/j/95091088705

gitlinks also generates an index page: see http://loganengstrom.com/goto/ as an example. The big caveat of `gitlinks` is that all of your links are public to anyone on the web, so be careful with what you link!

Configure gitlinks in two steps!

First, visit https://github.com/new and choose a short, memorable name like go for your gitlinks repository.

Now, check the box "Add a README file" (the repository can't be empty).

Make the repository, then go your repository's GitHub pages settings: https://github.com/yourusername/repository_name/settings/pages) and enable GitHub pages for the main branch:

Install the gitlinks executable via pip: pip install gitlinks. Then, initialize gitlinks to use your repository: gitlinks init remote_url. Your remote_url can be found here:

After this step, you should be able to make go-links to your heart's content.

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