Websites using GitHub Gist embeds
GitHub Gist embeds show a code snippet from a gist. About 157,400 websites in the PageSourceSearch index contain the code that reveals it; the 20 highest-ranked are listed below.
How is GitHub Gist embeds detected?
The embed is a script gist.github.com/<user>/<gist id>.js; the pattern matches any user and gist. The discovery keyword is the exact bytes PageSourceSearch looks for in every stored page and script:
gist\.github\.com/[\w-]+/[0-9a-f]+\.js regex Search the index for it
A literal is matched byte for byte, case-sensitively. Combine it with another keyword, a domain, a kind or a date filter on the search page to narrow the list. About GitHub Gist embeds
Top 50 websites using GitHub Gist embeds
Ranked by the domain's position in the crawl's ranked list (Common Crawl harmonic centrality), highest first. view source opens the stored page or script with the match highlighted. Computed 2026-10-11 23:36:36 UTC; the list stopped short of 50 because the search's budget ran out.
How it appears in the source
From shopify.engineering (html):
<script data-sandbox-src="https://gist.github.com/CourtneySymons/ab101f547c9a4578426becc450955c5d.js"></script>
See every site: search for gist\.github\.com/[\w-]+/[0-9a-f]+\.js
Questions about finding GitHub Gist embeds
- How does PageSourceSearch know a website uses GitHub Gist embeds?
- By the source itself: The embed is a script gist.github.com/<user>/<gist id>.js; the pattern matches any user and gist. PageSourceSearch stores the raw HTML and first-party JavaScript of each crawled site and matches the keyword byte for byte, so every listed site's stored source contains it.
- Is this a complete list of websites using GitHub Gist embeds?
- No. The page lists the 50 highest-ranked sites in the index whose source holds the keyword, out of about 157,400 websites that do; the count is the index's estimate at the time the list was computed. Run the keyword as a search to page through all of them, or add a kind or date filter.
- How do I find websites that use GitHub Gist embeds together with another technology?
- Search for both keywords at once: several terms separated by spaces must all be found on the same site, or with the Same page toggle in the same page. For example gist\.github\.com/[\w-]+/[0-9a-f]+\.js with wp-content/plugins/ lists the WordPress sites that use GitHub Gist embeds.