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Comment by MenhirMike | Hacker News Reader

> Only downside is that the urls look a bit ugly.

If /fred returns HTML, then the URL is perfectly fine, since the only real consumer of fred.md or fred.json are automated systems/API clients, and they couldn't care less what the URL looks like, only that it's predictable.

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It is a good trick with GitHub though that you can add .patch or .diff to the url to fetch the content without styling

Another good one for GitHub is that you can do

    github.com/[username].png

to get that username's profile picture.

And

        github.com/[username].keys

to get their ssh keys

We have

  github.com/[username].gpg

to get their OpenPGP keys, too!

Just go for .secrets to get it all in one request.

2 things.

What about any of that is "secret?"

This endpoint does not work.

Try .credit-card instead. Pretty sure that one works.

It's not just styling. The content is actually a `git format-patch` patch for the former a unified-format diff for the latter.

Adding .pibb to a gist url is another nice trick

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