How to make viewer like raw github

Question

I need create a file viewer in html, because html can open only txt. Thing like I need - raw githubusercontent. How it works?

You will need to be more specific about what type of files you are using, how exactly you want them to appear, and what server-side language(s) are available to you. — kmoser, Jun 05 '22 at 17:34

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 05 '22 at 20:52

If your file viewer can use curl, you can use gh api to get the content URL of a file, and download it, as seen here:

API_URL=https://api.github.com/repos/owner/repo/contents/path/file.ext
curl $(gh api $API_URL --jq .download_url) -o file.ext

That would simulate what raw.githubusercontent.com does.
And not just for .txt files.

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