Download Raw Txt Direct

Open the file on GitHub. Click the Raw button in the top-right corner to see the text-only version. Right-click anywhere on the page and select Save Link As... (or Save As... ) to save it as a .txt or its original extension.

If you have the URL of the raw file, use curl or wget in your terminal: Download raw txt

On the file page, hold the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Mac) and click the Raw button. This often triggers an immediate download. Open the file on GitHub

curl -L -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/[user]/[repo]/[branch]/[file] (or Save As

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/[user]/[repo]/[branch]/[file] 2. Google Drive & Google Docs

For standard text files stored in Drive, you can create a direct link by using the file ID in this format: https://google.com[FILE_ID] .

Open a Google Doc, go to File > Download > Plain Text (.txt) .