Share your code and data for double-anonymous peer review — without giving your identity away.
Public instance · How it works · Self-hosting
Double-anonymous review asks you to anonymize the artifact behind your paper — the code and data — exactly like the paper itself. Doing that by hand (owner, organization, repository name, logins, and every mention buried in the files) is tedious and easy to get wrong. Anonymous GitHub does it for you and serves the result behind a shareable link.
A free public instance is available at anonymous.4open.science.
- The GitHub owner, organization, and repository name
- File and directory names
- File contents of every extension (Markdown, text, source code, …), replacing a configurable list of terms
Just open anonymous.4open.science, paste your repository URL, add the terms to hide, and share the generated link.
Anonymize a repository locally and produce an anonymized zip:
npm install -g @tdurieux/anonymous_github
anonymous_githubRun your own instance with Docker
1. Clone and install
git clone https://github.com/tdurieux/anonymous_github/
cd anonymous_github
npm i2. Configure GitHub access — create a .env file:
GITHUB_TOKEN=<GITHUB_TOKEN>
CLIENT_ID=<CLIENT_ID>
CLIENT_SECRET=<CLIENT_SECRET>
PORT=5000
DB_USERNAME=
DB_PASSWORD=
AUTH_CALLBACK=http://localhost:5000/github/authGITHUB_TOKEN— create one at https://github.com/settings/tokens/new with thereposcope.CLIENT_ID/CLIENT_SECRET— from a new GitHub App at https://github.com/settings/applications/new.- The App's callback must be
https://<host>/github/auth(matchingAUTH_CALLBACK).
3. Start the server
docker-compose up -d4. Open http://localhost:5000. The port can be changed in docker-compose.yml; putting Anonymous GitHub behind nginx is recommended for HTTPS.
In double-anonymous review, the boundary of anonymization is the paper plus its online appendix — and only that. Googling part of the paper or appendix to reveal authorship is considered a deliberate attempt to break anonymity (explanation).
Anonymous GitHub either downloads the full repository and anonymizes each file, or proxies requests to GitHub on the fly. In both cases the original and anonymized versions are cached on the server, so even large repositories stay responsive.
- gitmask — contribute anonymously to a GitHub repository.
- blind-reviews — browser add-on that hides identifying information when reviewing a pull request.