Readme validator doesn't support GitHub web page of a readme.txt

[1naveengiri]

Readme Validator showing unnecessary Errors and Warnings when GitHub branch readme file link is shared.

​https://wordpress.org/plugins/developers/readme-validator/

[ocean90]

What is a "GitHub branch readme file link"?

[1naveengiri]

by "Github branch readme file link"
​https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/master/readme.txt

I know it throwing error because here entire Github page is being scrapped.

can we do anything for it so anyone can validate readme just by passing Github code file link?

[ocean90]

Not sure if it's worth it since it's easy to get the link to the raw file by clicking or copying the link from the "Raw" button.

[dd32]

What about a Gitlab or Bitbucket url? What about another code hosting platform?

I think it's reasonable to expect that a user of such platforms can figure out how to copy a direct url to the file rather than a HTML preview of it.

[Otto42]

Agreed, use the raw link. For example: ​https://raw.githubusercontent.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/master/readme.txt