CORS Proxy vs Statically

CORS Proxy is a small open-source Node.js server (54 GitHub stars) that forwards a POST request's urlToGet body param to the target URL server-side and relays the response back with permissive CORS headers, sidestepping browser CORS errors for GET-able resources. It is a deploy-it-yourself utility, not a hosted service — the README's old Heroku demo link is dead since Heroku retired free dynos in 2022, so it only works once cloned and deployed to your own host.

Statically is a free CDN that serves raw files straight from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and GitHub Gist repositories, plus any npm package, via simple path-based URLs like `cdn.statically.io/gh/:user/:repo@:tag/:file` — no key or account needed. It runs on bunny.net and Cloudflare edge infrastructure; the vendor disabled its former `/img/` image-processing endpoint after sustained abuse, so only the Git/npm file-serving routes remain live today.