Link and execute external JavaScript file hosted on GitHub

Question

When I try to change the linked reference of a local JavaScript file to a GitHub raw version my test file stops working. The error is:

Refused to exe

Answer 1

To make things clear and short

//raw.githubusercontent.com --> //rawgit.com

Note that this is handled by rawgit's development hosting and not their cdn for production hosting

Answer 2

Most simple way:
<script type="text/plain" src="http://raw.githubusercontent.com/user/repo/branch/file.js"></script>
Served by GitHub,
and

very

reliable.
With text/plain
Without text/plain

Answer 3

Example

---

original

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antelove19/qrcodejs/master/qrcode.min.js

cdn.jsdelivr.net

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/antelove19/qrcodejs/qrcode.min.js

Answer 4

I found the error was shown due to the comments at the beginning of file , You can solve this issue , by simply creating your own file without comment and push to git, it shows no error

For proof you can try these two file with same code of easy pagination :

without comment

with comment

Answer 5

raw.github.com is not truely raw access to file asset, but a view rendered by Rails. So accessing raw.github.com is much heavier than needed. I don't know why raw.github.com is implemented as a Rails view. Instead of fix this route issue, GitHub added a X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header.

Workaround:

• Put the script to user.github.io/repo
• Use a third party CDN like rawgit.com.

Answer 6

This is no longer possible. GitHub has explicitly disabled JavaScript hotlinking, and newer versions of browsers respect that setting.

Heads up: nosniff header support coming to Chrome and Firefox