[tizzy]

I've been thinking about this recently also. I can't think of any downsides off the top of my head but I might be blinded by the idea? Can you?

[simonw]

I've had dozens of repos doing this kind of thing for a few years now and I've not found any downsides yet - it just works.

There's a size limit to consider: GitHub won't let you push a file larger than 100MB and prefer you to keep the repo itself below 2GB.

Most of my scraping projects are a tiny fraction of that size though.