I want to use Fontaweseome without downloading it at all. (i.e.: directly to the github URL) If you're going to use any third-party code in this way, you should make sure you have permission from the owner of the site you're downloading it from. Some sites will block external links like this to because of the bandwidth costs it would incur. I believe GitHub is one of those sites -- if they allowed this, it would cost them a huge amount of money to serve all the javascript and other code. However, there are sites around that do provide this service.