diff --git a/swh/indexer/codemeta.py b/swh/indexer/codemeta.py
--- a/swh/indexer/codemeta.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/codemeta.py
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
     CODEMETA_CONTEXT = json.load(fd)
 
 CODEMETA_CONTEXT_URL = 'https://doi.org/10.5063/schema/codemeta-2.0'
+CODEMETA_ALTERNATE_CONTEXT_URLS = {
+    ('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codemeta/codemeta/'
+     'master/codemeta.jsonld')
+}
 CODEMETA_URI = 'https://codemeta.github.io/terms/'
 SCHEMA_URI = 'http://schema.org/'
 
@@ -98,7 +102,7 @@
 
     Reads the local codemeta.jsonld file instead of fetching it
     from the Internet every single time."""
-    if url == CODEMETA_CONTEXT_URL:
+    if url == CODEMETA_CONTEXT_URL or url in CODEMETA_ALTERNATE_CONTEXT_URLS:
         return {
                 'contextUrl': None,
                 'documentUrl': url,
diff --git a/swh/indexer/tests/test_metadata.py b/swh/indexer/tests/test_metadata.py
--- a/swh/indexer/tests/test_metadata.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/tests/test_metadata.py
@@ -549,6 +549,21 @@
         result = self.codemeta_mapping.translate(raw_content)
         self.assertEqual(result, expected_result)
 
+    def test_compute_metadata_codemeta_alternate_context(self):
+        raw_content = (
+            b"""{
+            "@context": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codemeta/codemeta/master/codemeta.jsonld",
+            "@type": "SoftwareSourceCode",
+            "identifier": "CodeMeta"
+        }""")  # noqa
+        expected_result = {
+            "@context": "https://doi.org/10.5063/schema/codemeta-2.0",
+            "type": "SoftwareSourceCode",
+            "identifier": "CodeMeta",
+        }
+        result = self.codemeta_mapping.translate(raw_content)
+        self.assertEqual(result, expected_result)
+
     def test_compute_metadata_maven(self):
         raw_content = b"""
         <project>