Serve JSON Data from Github Pages

Question

I have a repository on github which contains a number of csv, json, yml data files in the root directory of the repository.

How do I get it to serve those files using Github Pages?

So for eg: when I go to http://username.github.io/reponame/ followed by

• /posts - serve the contents of the posts.json file
• /users - serve the contents of the users.json file
• /comments - serve the contents of the comments.json file
• /posts.csv - serve the contents of the posts.csv file

Answer 1

You just need to add .json files in your repository and you can access them like a normal JSON API

In the following repository username.github.io/reponame add following files

posts.json

[
  {"id": 1, "title": "Title 1"},
  {"id": 2, "title": "Title 2"}
]

users.json

[
  {"name": "abc", "email": "[email protected]"},
  {"name": "xyz", "email": "[email protected]"}
]

comments.json

[
  {"post_id": "1", "text": "Comment 1"},
  {"post_id": "2", "text": "Comment 2"}
]

posts.csv

id,title
1,Title 1
2,Title 2

And access them with

• http://username.github.io/reponame/posts.json
• http://username.github.io/reponame/users.json
• http://username.github.io/reponame/comments.json
• http://username.github.io/reponame/posts.csv