I need to load a shell script from a raw gist but I can't find a way to get raw URL.
curl -L address-to-raw-gist.sh | bash
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1Note: gist raw url just changed (February 2014). See my answer belowVonC– VonC2014-02-24 09:49:28 +00:00Commented Feb 24, 2014 at 9:49
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1Does this answer your question? Is there a permalink to the latest version of gist files?Mohammad Ayoub Khan– Mohammad Ayoub Khan2021-03-24 00:49:16 +00:00Commented Mar 24, 2021 at 0:49
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5 Answers
And yet there is, look for the raw button (on the top-right of the source code).
The raw URL should look like this:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/{user}/{gist_hash}/raw/{commit_hash}/{file}
Note: it is possible to get the latest version by omitting the {commit_hash} part, as shown below:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/{user}/{gist_hash}/raw/{file}
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spuder
While that link does get the raw , it is hard coded to that specific commit.
nerdoc
is there a possibility to get the latest raw version? If you omit the commit hash, it doesn't work neither...
aymericbeaumet
@nerdoc Just omit the commit hash in the URL. e.g., gist.github.com/aymericbeaumet/940d6360efe5a4618302c291c7b2d051/… would be accessed in a raw version as gist.githubusercontent.com/aymericbeaumet/…
nerdoc
I thought that too, as it seems obvious. but it did not work. Tried, but did not work for me. Either there was a small (cache?) delay? I moved to GitLab snippets, there it works as expected.
nerdoc
AAAARRRGGGHHH! gist.githubusercontent.com/nerdoc/… - I have to omit the commit hash, but provide the filename afterwords. So easy, but drove me nuts. Thanks.
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February 2014: the raw url just changed.
See "Gist raw file URI change":
The raw host for all Gist files is changing immediately.
This change was made to further isolate user content from trusted GitHub applications.The new host is
https://gist.githubusercontent.com.
Existing URIs will redirect to the new host.
Before it was https://gist.github.com/<username>/<gist-id>/raw/...
Now it is https://gist.githubusercontent.com/<username>/<gist-id>/raw/...
For instance:
KrisWebDev adds in the comments:
If you want the last version of a Gist document, just remove the
<commit>/from URLhttps://gist.githubusercontent.com/VonC/9184693/raw/testNewGist
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VonC
@KrisWebDev good point. I have included in the answer for more visibility, along with an example.
Gank
The raw host for all Gist files is changing immediately. But I found it not immediately
Michael Schneider
A better way would be also to pay attention to the API: api.github.com/gists/9184693 You can get from there the raw_url and use that. This answere is correct, no doubt, but the API will (never) be outdated, it could be possible they change it again like in FEB 2014.
One can simply use the github api.
https://api.github.com/gists/$GIST_ID
Reference: https://miguelpiedrafita.com/github-gists
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jkdev
This API returns JSON data, from which you can get the raw URL as follows:
url = json_data["files"][filename]["raw_url"] where filename is the name of a specific file within the gist.Gitlab snippets provide short concise urls, are easy to create and goes well with the command line.
Sample example: Enable bash completion by patching /etc/bash.bashrc
sudo su -
(curl -s https://gitlab.com/snippets/21846/raw && echo) | patch -s /etc/bash.bashrc
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Adding one note to @aymericbeaumet's answer ... It seems possible to also omit the file part in url if there's only one file in the gist. For example:
curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/karpathy/d4dee566867f8291f086/raw
prints
"""
Minimal character-level Vanilla RNN model. Written by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
BSD License
"""
import numpy as np
# data I/O
...
as of 2025-02-28.
