Comment by v9v
5 days ago
I use https://github.com/TxGVNN/github-explorer for this and even though it doesn't have a C-x C-f nicety (you just m-x github-explorer then type in the repo name) it works via http (or at least I don't recall giving it any API key or anything).
From what I can tell (by just glancing over the code) - it doesn't open the tree in Dired. I just wanted to browse any GitHub repo in Dired. You can browse the tree in any branch, view and copy files out, grab GH urls for files, for regions, etc. You just can't make any edits - no file/subdir renaming.