anderick/issue-redir

Issue Redir

This project is a proof-of-concept to use GitHub features as a low-code tool.

About

When you share a link in a social media platform, it tries to load for you meta information to better show your link. That's why instead of seeing:

(https://cbc.ca)[https://cbc.ca)

You see something like:

This project generates a link that redirects to any other link where you can redefine:

• Title
• Description
• Image

This way, you can turn your links into more attractive and insteresting links, that you catch the attention of your audience.

Instructions

• Create an issue in this repository
• Select the template New Link
• Follow the instruction in the template:
  • Add the full URL of the link you want to redirect to in the title of the issue
  • In the body of the issue add the folowing information:
    1. Line 1: title of the link
    2. Line 2: description of the link
    3. Line 3: image link (it can be a GIF)
• Submit your issue
• Wait about 30 seconds and check the comment in your issue, it'll contain the link you can use to share your modified URL

Note: Once generated, the link cannot be modified. To generate a new link, please create follow all the steps from the beginning.

Testing

To test it, you can paste the generated URL in platforms like Slack, LinkdIn, Facebook and other and see the magic happening.

Or you can use sites like:

• https://www.opengraph.xyz/

Collaboration

If you have an idea to improve this project, please, get in touch or submit a PR.

Feel free to fork this project and use in your own GitHub account. More instructions on how to do this will be here soon.