Browser Extension
Creating a workspace is as easy as prefixing any GitHub URL with gitpod.io/#
.
For convenience, we developed a Gitpod browser extension. It adds a button to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket that does the prefixing for you - as simple as that.
We provide the extension for:
Access the extension settings
- Right-click on the Gitpod extension icon.
- Select
Options
for chrome based browsers. For Firefox, selectManage Extension
and thenPreferences
.

Use a custom Gitpod instance URL
If you are using custom Gitpod instance (e.g. dedicated) you can still use the browser extension by configuring it with your instance URL
After you have installed the extension go to the options panel and enter your custom Gitpod instance URL.

Open repositories with (dot) keybind
Toggle on the Enable . keybind to open repositories in Gitpod
option in the Gitpod extension preferences/options. After doing this, whenever you hit
on GitHub or GitLab, the current repository will open in Gitpod.
Source Code
Gitpod’s browser extension is open source. You can check out its source code, or even open it in Gitpod: