FileConcat

GitHub import

Paste a public GitHub repository URL into the Source input and the workbench fetches the file tree on demand. No GitHub account needed, and no servers in between.

Supported URL shapes

The GitHub adapter at packages/core/src/sources/adapters/github.ts parses three shapes:

https://github.com/owner/repo
https://github.com/owner/repo/tree/branch
https://github.com/owner/repo/tree/branch/subdirectory

A trailing .git is tolerated and stripped. The optional branch defaults to the repository's default branch when omitted. When a subdirectory is included, only files at or under that path are imported.

Rate limits

The GitHub REST API allows 60 requests per hour per IP for unauthenticated callers. A single repository fetch is at least one request for the tree and additional requests for raw file contents on the streaming path; large repositories burn through the quota faster than small ones.

When a request is denied, the error message you see in the workbench is produced by classifyResponseError (packages/core/src/sources/adapters/_errors.ts). Status 401, 403, and 429 each carry their own human-readable wording so you can tell "rate limited" apart from "private repository".

If you need higher quotas or access to private repositories today, the supported workaround is to download the project locally and use the drag-and-drop path instead. Token-authenticated imports are tracked separately and are not shipped at the time of writing.

Raw URLs

Raw file URLs like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/owner/repo/... are not handled by the GitHub adapter. They go to the URL fallback adapter instead, which downloads the single file you point it at and shows it in the workbench. Use this for "give me one file from GitHub" cases.

Gists

GitHub Gists are handled by a separate adapter that lives next to the others. URL shape:

https://gist.github.com/owner/gistId

The owner segment is required by the regex; bare gist URLs without the owner part are not matched. Gists are flat (no subdirectories); every file in the gist comes in together.

The same adapter also matches GitLab Snippet URLs; see GitLab import for those.

See also