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SATO, Yoshiyuki
SATO, Yoshiyuki

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Special icons for social accounts on GitHub

You can have up to 4 social account links on your GitHub profile.

Follow the steps below for the settings.
Your avatar on the top right of GitHub → settings → "Public profile" → "Social accounts"

https://github.blog/changelog/2023-02-02-add-more-social-links-to-your-user-profile/

You can now add up to 4 links to any social accounts to your user profile, with special support for popular platforms.

It states that it has "special support for popular platforms".
For example, if you register a Twitter URL, the chain icon will replace the Twitter icon.

Specifically, I checked what platforms are supported.
The checking method is simply looking at the HTML source.

If you have any of the following social accounts, I recommend registering them on GitHub (up to 4).

As of 2023-05-06, 9 social accounts seem to be supported.

Added on 2023-10-14: The npm account logo has been added and it seems to be compatible with 10 types of social accounts.

images

Below are images from social accounts other than twitter.

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twitter

Regex:



^https://(?:www\.)?twitter\.com/([^/?]+)/?$


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Test URL:



https://twitter.com/test


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facebook

Regex:



^https://(?:[^.]+\.)?facebook\.com/(?:[^/?]+/?|profile\.php\?id=\d+)$


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Test URL:



https://facebook.com/test


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instagram

Regex:



^https://(www\.)?instagram\.com/[^/?]+/?$


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Test URL:



https://instagram.com/test


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linkedin

Regex:



^https://(?:www\.)?linkedin\.com/(?:in|company)/[^/?]+/?$


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Test URL:



https://linkedin.com/in/test


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reddit

Regex:



^https://(?:www\.)?reddit\.com/u(?:ser)?/([^/?]+)/?$


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Test URL:



https://reddit.com/u/test


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twitch

Regex:



^https://(?:www\.)?twitch\.tv/[^/?]+/?$


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Test URL:



https://twitch.tv/test


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youtube

Regex:



^https://(?:www\.)?youtube\.com/(user|c)/[^/?]+/?$
^https://(?:www\.)?youtube\.com/channel/[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{24}/?$
^https://(?:www\.)?youtube\.com/@[^/?]+/?$


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Test URL:



https://youtube.com/user/test


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mastodon

I don't know the specific pattern, but Mastodon seems to be supported.

Test URL:



https://mastodon.social/@test


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hometown

hometown seems to be a SNS that forked mastodon.

Test URL:



https://rage.love/@test


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I created a test URL from the server list on the following site.

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Hometown-servers

The icon looks the same as the mastodon.

npm

Added on 2023-10-14.

Regex:



^https://(?:www\.)?npmjs\.com/~([^/?]+)/?$


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Test URL:



https://npmjs.com/~test


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