Render Html, Css, and Js from a GitHub gist

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Riccardo

You can use https://gistpreview.github.io/?GIST_ID to render the index.html from a gist:

Use https://gistpreview.github.io/?GIST_ID/FILE_NAME for any file:

The raw content of a file (e.g., PNG) can be accessed with https://gist.github.com/3v0k4/GIST_ID/raw/BLOB_ID/FILE_NAME. To get the BLOB_ID use git ls-tree -r head in the cloned gist.

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