Host a Video on Github Pages for Free

Host a Video on Github Pages for Free

Greetings, in this github tutorial we shall be looking at how we can host a video for free on github pages. That's right, we can host a video for free on github pages. This is amazing for proof of concepting stuff like streaming a video from a hosted location or if you just want to store your videos on a platform that isn't YouTube.

You can't host more than 1GB worth of files on a free github page. This is fine for casual use.

To host a video for free on github pages we just need to login to github, create a new repo, upload our vidoe file to github, then create a github page for our repo in thye settings. That is all! That is everything needed to host a video on github for free. It will take a few minutes for your github page to go live.

As for the url to watch the video that is being hosted on gthub pages.

This is the githubpage url I used in this tutorial: https://maxodidily.github.io/VideoHostTutorial/BigTimeVillan.mp4

it goes [https://] followed by [githubusername] then [.github.io/] then [repo name] then [/] then [filename]. If you have subfolders in your github page and your video is located in a subfolder on that github page, you will need to include that in the url too. Also, the filepath sections of a github page url is case sensitive, so make sure it matches the video file you have uploaded.

You can also use this url to download the video. Here is a YouTube tutorial on how you can play a video that is hosted online via a url:

This video is a good example of a reason to host a video externally on a platform like github pages.

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Host a Video on Github Pages for Free ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__dIztD5FSA