diff --git a/app/models/project/Project.scala b/app/models/project/Project.scala
index baf4cf066..fbc456bb9 100755
--- a/app/models/project/Project.scala
+++ b/app/models/project/Project.scala
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import ore.{Joinable, OreConfig, Visitable}
 import play.api.libs.json._
 import play.api.libs.functional.syntax._
 import play.twirl.api.Html
+import _root_.util.GitHubUtil
 import _root_.util.StringUtils
 import _root_.util.StringUtils._
 import models.project.VisibilityTypes.{Public, Visibility}
@@ -464,7 +465,18 @@ case class Project(override val id: Option[Int] = None,
     * @return Project home page
     */
   def homePage: Page = Defined {
-    val page = new Page(this.id.get, Page.HomeName, Page.Template(this.name, Page.HomeMessage), false, -1)
+    var body = Page.HomeMessage
+    val source = this.settings.source
+    if (source.isDefined && GitHubUtil.isGitHubUrl(source.get)) {
+      val urlParts = source.get.split("//github.com/")(1).split("/")
+      val ghUser = urlParts(0)
+      val ghProject = urlParts(1)
+      val readme = GitHubUtil.getReadme(ghUser, ghProject)
+      if (readme != null && readme.isDefined) {
+        body = readme.get
+      }
+    }
+    val page = new Page(this.id.get, Page.HomeName, Page.Template(this.name, body), false, -1)
     this.service.await(page.schema.getOrInsert(page)).get
   }
 
diff --git a/app/util/GitHubUtil.scala b/app/util/GitHubUtil.scala
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ef39483e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/util/GitHubUtil.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package util
+
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException
+
+import play.api.libs.json.{JsValue, Json}
+
+import scala.io.Source
+
+object GitHubUtil {
+
+  private val identifier = "A-Za-z0-9-_"
+  private val gitHubUrlPattern = s"""http(s)?://github.com/[$identifier]+/[$identifier]+(/)?""".r.pattern
+  private val readmeApi = "https://api.github.com/repos/%s/%s/readme"
+
+  def isGitHubUrl(url: String): Boolean = gitHubUrlPattern.matcher(url).matches()
+
+  def getReadme(user: String, project: String): Option[String] = {
+    try {
+      val readmeApiJson: JsValue = Json.parse(Source.fromURL(readmeApi.format(user, project)).mkString)
+      val url = (readmeApiJson \ "download_url").get.toString()
+      val readme = Source.fromURL(url).mkString
+      Some(readme)
+    } catch {
+      case _: FileNotFoundException => None
+    }
+  }
+
+}