How to Accelerate GitHub Access: Mirrors, Proxies, and Hosts File Tweaks

1. GitHub Mirror Access

Two commonly used mirror URLs are provided: https://github.com.cnpmjs.org and https://hub.fastgit.org. These sites clone the entire GitHub content and allow you to browse, download, and clone repositories as if using the original site.

2. GitHub File Acceleration

Cloudflare Workers can accelerate GitHub releases, archives, and project files without requiring a server, offering built‑in CDN capabilities.

https://gh.api.99988866.xyz

https://g.ioiox.com

The sites are demo instances; if unavailable, you can refer to the open‑source project gh‑proxy‑GitHub (https://hunsh.net/archives/23/) to deploy your own file accelerator.

3. GitHub Accelerated Download

Copy the original GitHub URL into the input box at http://toolwa.com/github/ to proxy and speed up downloads.

4. Accelerate Your GitHub

Visit https://github.zhlh6.cn, paste a repository address, and obtain a generated URL for git, ssh, and other operations.

5. Chrome Extension for GitHub Acceleration (Recommended)

If online installation is inconvenient, reply with github加速 in the public account backend to receive the extension.

6. GitHub Raw Acceleration

The raw domain is raw.githubusercontent.com. If the previous accelerators do not cover it, replace the domain with raw.staticdn.net to speed up raw file access.

7. GitHub + JsDelivr

JsDelivr can serve static files but cannot fetch executable files (exe, dmg) attached to releases, limiting its use to static CDN rather than release download acceleration.

8. Download via Gitee Fork

Import a GitHub/GitLab repository on Gitee (https://gitee.com/), then clone or download the mirrored repository from Gitee.

9. Accelerate via Hosts File Modification

Manually bind CDN IP addresses to GitHub domains by editing the hosts file. Steps include obtaining IPs for github.global.ssl.fastly.net (199.232.69.194) and github.com (140.82.114.4), then adding them to the hosts file with appropriate permissions on Windows.

199.232.69.194 github.global.ssl.fastly.net
140.82.114.4 github.com

After saving, the system will resolve GitHub requests to the faster IPs.

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