shorten-repo-url

shorten-repo-url

Shorten GitHub links like GitHub shortens Issues and Commit links. Used on refined-github

Check out the demo page to see what each URL is shortened to. GitLab URLs are mostly compatible but they're not officially supported.

It works on any domain, so GitHub Enterprise is also supported.

Install

$ npm install shorten-repo-url

Usage

const shortenRepoUrl = require('shorten-repo-url');

const HTML = shortenRepoUrl(
	'https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/v0.12/doc',
	'https://github.com/nodejs/node' // same repo
);
//=> '<code>v0.12</code>' // repo-less URL

const HTML = shortenRepoUrl(
	'https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/v0.12/doc',
	'https://github.com' // not the same repo
);
//=> 'nodejs/node@<code>v0.12</code>' // URL with repo

API

shortenRepoUrl(url, currentUrl)

Returns the shortened URL in HTML as a string like nodejs/node@<code>v0.12</code>.

url

Type: string

The GitHub URL to shorten.

currentUrl

Type: string, like location.href

The URL of the current page, to build relative URLs like <code>v0.12</code> instead of the longer nodejs/node@<code>v0.12</code>

shortenRepoUrl.applyToLink(link, currentUrl)

Automatically shorten the link's text if the text matches the URL, i.e. <a href="https://github.com">https://github.com</a>. If a data-original-href attribute is present, it will be used when comparing the link’s text and when generating the shortened URL.

Note: this function will never change the href of the link, it only changes the text.

It will return true or false depending on whether the link was shortened.

link

Type: Element

Example: shortenRepoUrl.applyToLink(document.querySelector(a))

currentUrl

Type: string, like location.href

Same as before.

License

MIT © Federico Brigante