Is it possible to get a github file using HTTP service?

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#1

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I wan’t to know if its possible to use a GitHub file in a roblox studio project. Basicly, i’m trying to make a neural network and i found a book using python that explains all the complex math behind and such, but he uses a python function to get a github file.
  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    I don’t know how i could use HTTP service to extract a file from github
  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    Looked through dev forum but couldn’t find anything useful, i’ve also looked at the API but i don’t really understand how HTTP service works.

The file i want is the MNIST training data set for handwritten digit recognition. linked here

#2

When I tried to view the dataset on the GitHub site it gave me a download instead of showing the raw dataset in the browser. Because of this I’m guessing GitHub won’t send a file this large over HTTP - you won’t be able to do it.

#3

Is there really no work-around? Should i write it in python and import the weights and biases into luau?

#4

I don’t see why that wouldn’t work