Problem requiring an external AMD module.

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I’m having an odd problem with require() and an external JavaScript module. (I added the AMD details so it would load as a module.) When loaded from a local file picker, the module is fine. When the exact same JavaScript is loaded from a Gist, the module is invalid.

Here is the notebook demonstrating the problem, with more details in the text content.

Thanks in advance!

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You’re getting an error because the gist.github.com link you used returns the file as type text/plain. One way to fix this is to paste the gist link on raw.githack.com and use either of the resulting URL(s) instead:

https://gist.githack.com/vorth/c8f811806e5ade9341a0e588b7ba3320/raw/f840e7bdc396638d800d5706a3ae83d6b23a1e42/ZomicParser.js

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Yep, what @bgchen said! GitHub doesn’t let you serve JavaScript files from Gists, I believe for security reasons. In addition to using something like GitHack to serve files from Gists, you can also jump through this hoop by fetching the file and using URL.createObjectURL:

parserModule = require.alias({
  "antlr4": antlr4,
  "ZomicParserListener": ZomicParserListener
})(URL.createObjectURL(await fetch(badURL).then(response => response.blob())))
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Awesome, thank you both!