diff --git a/bin/now-deploy.js b/bin/now-deploy.js
index 84f0922..332bf54 100755
--- a/bin/now-deploy.js
+++ b/bin/now-deploy.js
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import toHumanPath from '../lib/utils/to-human-path'
 import promptOptions from '../lib/utils/prompt-options'
 import {handleError, error} from '../lib/error'
 import readMetaData from '../lib/read-metadata'
+import {onGitHub, isRepoPath} from '../lib/github'
 
 const argv = minimist(process.argv.slice(2), {
   string: [
@@ -192,18 +193,35 @@ if (argv.h || argv.help) {
 
 async function sync(token) {
   const start = Date.now()
+  const rawPath = argv._[0]
 
-  if (!quiet) {
-    console.log(`> Deploying ${chalk.bold(toHumanPath(path))}`)
+  const stopDeployment = msg => {
+    error(msg)
+    process.exit(1)
   }
 
   try {
     await stat(path)
   } catch (err) {
-    error(`Could not read directory ${chalk.bold(path)}`)
-    process.exit(1)
+    const repo = await onGitHub(rawPath, debug)
+
+    if (repo) {
+      path = repo
+    } else if (isRepoPath(rawPath)) {
+      stopDeployment(`This path neither exists, nor is there a repository named "${rawPath}" on GitHub`)
+    } else {
+      stopDeployment(`Could not read directory ${chalk.bold(path)}`)
+    }
+
+    console.log(repo)
+  }
+
+  if (!quiet) {
+    console.log(`> Deploying ${chalk.bold(toHumanPath(path))}`)
   }
 
+  process.exit()
+
   let deploymentType
 
   let hasPackage
diff --git a/lib/github.js b/lib/github.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..12525e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/github.js
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+// Packages
+import fetch from 'node-fetch'
+import download from 'download'
+import tmp from 'tmp-promise'
+
+// Ours
+import {error} from './error'
+
+const exists = async repoPath => {
+  const apiURL = `https://api.github.com/repos/${repoPath}`
+  let request
+
+  try {
+    request = await fetch(apiURL)
+  } catch(err) {
+    error(`Not able to check if repo exists - ${err.message}`)
+    return false
+  }
+
+  const res = await request.json()
+
+  if (!res.name) {
+    return false
+  }
+
+  return res
+}
+
+const downloadRepo = async repoPath => {
+  const url = `https://api.github.com/repos/${repoPath}/tarball`
+
+  const tmpDir = await tmp.dir({
+    keep: true
+  })
+
+  try {
+    await download(url, tmpDir.path, {
+      extract: true
+    })
+  } catch (err) {
+    error(`Not able to download repo: ${err.stack}`)
+  }
+
+  return tmpDir
+}
+
+export const isRepoPath = path => {
+  if (!path) {
+    return false
+  }
+
+  const slashCount = path.split('/').length - 1
+
+  if (!slashCount || slashCount > 1) {
+    return false
+  }
+
+  return true
+}
+
+export const onGitHub = async (path, debug) => {
+  let repo = await exists(path)
+
+  try {
+    repo = await exists(path)
+  } catch(err) {
+    if (debug) {
+      console.log(`Repository "${path}" does not exist on GitHub`)
+    }
+
+    return false
+  }
+
+  if (!repo) {
+    return false
+  }
+
+  const tmpDir = await downloadRepo(path)
+  console.log(tmpDir)
+
+  return 'test'
+}
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ccda899..3b6c4e8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
     "copy-paste": "1.3.0",
     "cross-spawn": "5.0.1",
     "docker-file-parser": "0.1.0",
+    "download": "5.0.2",
     "email-prompt": "0.1.8",
     "email-validator": "1.0.7",
     "fs-promise": "1.0.0",
@@ -89,7 +90,8 @@
     "socket.io-client": "1.6.0",
     "spdy": "3.4.4",
     "split-array": "1.0.1",
-    "text-table": "0.2.0"
+    "text-table": "0.2.0",
+    "tmp-promise": "1.0.2"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "alpha-sort": "1.0.2",