Show HN: View GitHub PDFs in the browser, the easy way

3 points by bogdannbv 22 hours ago

Recently I've had to find and read specs for some obscure protocols and found quite a few PDFs on GitHub scattered across multiple repos. The only problem was that in order to view and search them I had to download and re-open them in the browser's PDF viewer.

After a dozen or so PDFs it got really old so I decided to make this tool.

How it works is you prefix any GitHub URL that points to a PDF file with "pdf" so instead of:

"github.com/bogdannbv/pdfgithub.com/blob/main/example/file.pdf"

It becomes

"pdfgithub.com/bogdannbv/pdfgithub.com/blob/main/example/file.pdf"

Now you'll be able to view the PDF directly in your browser, no downloads, no extra steps.