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acidic
acidic

Reputation: 1517

How to create AppStore.com short link?

For my resume, I am attempting to add a shortened link to the app that I created. I looked around and found that apple provides a link shortener for iOS apps using the AppStore.com URL.

Unfortunately, since my app contains the ² character, I cannot figure out how to link to my app.

The long link for my app is: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/squared2/id498133871?mt=8

Also, is there a way to link to an app without having iTunes automatically open (only show the iTunes preview page)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4575

Answers (5)

Burhanuddin Sunelwala
Burhanuddin Sunelwala

Reputation: 5343

Here is how you can have a short link.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id<Apple ID>

Ex: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id375380948

Upvotes: 0

neilco
neilco

Reputation: 8012

All AppStore.com short links, such as http://appstore.com/squared², will automatically open iTunes. There's no way to stop iTunes URLs opening iTunes (if it's installed) for all users.

Upvotes: 0

Gabriele Petronella
Gabriele Petronella

Reputation: 108159

According to the rules explained in the Technical Q&A QA1633, here it is 

http://appstore.com/squared²

You have to:

  • Remove all whitespace
  • Convert all characters to lower-case
  • Remove all copyright (©), trademark (™) and registered mark (®) symbols
  • Replace ampersands ("&") with "and"
  • Remove most punctuation, namely !¡"#$%'()*+,\-./:;<=>¿?@[\]^_`{|}~
  • Replace accented and other "decorated" characters (ü, å, etc.) with their elemental character (u, a, etc.)
  • Leave all other characters as-is.

That said, appstore.com links, also know as canonical App Store Short Links, automatically redirect to iTunes when open in a browswer.

Upvotes: 7

Bot
Bot

Reputation: 11865

Have you tried a url shortener service like bit.ly. Also usually the web browser will prompt you on how you want to proceed with the url. For Chrome it asks me if I want to continue viewing the preview web page or open it in iTunes.

Upvotes: 0

Michael Guren
Michael Guren

Reputation: 349

This link you have works fine. Can you expand on the problem?

Also, the name of app is meaningless in the url. This link works just as well:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meaningless/id498133871?mt=8

Upvotes: -2

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