How to permalink to a gist's raw file. Linking to the raw version of a gist.

How to permalink to a gist's raw file.md

How to permalink to a gist's raw file

Linking to the raw version of a gist.

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Problem: When linking to the raw version of a gist, the link changes with each revision.

Solution:

To return the first file from a gist:

curl -L https://gist.github.com/[gist_user]/[gist_id]/raw/

• Example: https://gist.github.com/atenni/5604522/raw/
• Works even when you change the filename.

To get a file from multi–file gist:

curl -L https://gist.github.com/[gist_user]/[gist_id]/raw/[file_name]

• Example: https://gist.github.com/atenni/5604522/raw/README.md

(via: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14529686)

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You can't without adding -L flag because it directs to gist.githubusercontent.com

curl https://gist.github.com/[gist_user]/[gist_id]/raw/[file_name]

https://gist.github.com/raw/[ID]/[REVISION]/[FILE]

or

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/raw/[ID]/[REVISION]/[FILE]
[ID] is necessary
[REVISION]

can be omitted to get the latest revision [FILE] can be omitted to get the first file

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curl -L https://raw.github.com/gist/[gist_id]

OR

curl -L https://gist.github.com/[user_name]/[gist_id]/raw
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(which is more likely to be an unique URI.)
returns first file from the gist.
For gist with multiple files, ```curl -L https://raw.github.com/gist/[gist_id]/[file_name]```
The url works even when you change the filename.
e.g. 

curl -L https://raw.github.com/gist/4636655 https://raw.github.com/gist/4636655/imdb-getglue.js

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