diff --git a/nur/index.py b/nur/index.py
index 92bc97a6b..3ed20dc4d 100644
--- a/nur/index.py
+++ b/nur/index.py
@@ -7,7 +7,56 @@ from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 from typing import Any, Dict
 
 
-def index_repo(directory: Path, repo: str, expression_file: str) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+def resolve_source(pkg: Dict, repo: str, url: str) -> str:
+    # TODO commit hash
+    prefix = f"https://github.com/nix-community/nur-combined/tree/master/repos/{repo}"
+    position = pkg["meta"].get("position", None)
+    if position is not None and position.startswith("/nix/store"):
+        path_str, line = position.rsplit(":", 1)
+        path = Path(path_str)
+        # I've decided to just take these 2 repositories,
+        # update this whenever someone decided to use a recipe source other than
+        # NUR or nixpkgs to override packages on. right now this is about as accurate as
+        # `nix edit` is
+        # TODO find commit hash
+        prefixes = {
+            "nixpkgs": "https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/tree/master/",
+            "nur": "https://github.com/nix-community/nur-combined/tree/master/",
+        }
+        stripped = path.parts[4:]
+        if path.parts[3].endswith("source"):
+
+            canonical_url = url
+            # if we want to add the option of specifying branches, we have to update this
+            if "github" in url:
+                canonical_url += "/blob/HEAD/"
+            elif "gitlab" in url:
+                canonical_url += "/-/blob/HEAD/"
+            attr_path = "/".join(stripped)
+            location = f"{canonical_url}{attr_path}"
+            return f"{location}#L{line}"
+        elif stripped[0] not in prefixes:
+            print(path, file=sys.stderr)
+            print(
+                f"we could not find {stripped} , you can file an issue at https://github.com/nix-community/NUR/issues to the indexing file if you think this is a mistake",
+                file=sys.stderr,
+            )
+            return prefix
+        else:
+            attr_path = "/".join(stripped[1:])
+            location = f"{prefixes[stripped[0]]}{attr_path}"
+            return f"{location}#L{line}"
+    elif position is not None and "nur-combined" in position:
+        path_str, line = position.rsplit(":", 1)
+        stripped = path_str.partition(f"nur-combined/repos/{repo}")[2]
+        return f"{prefix}{stripped}#L{line}"
+    else:
+        return prefix
+
+
+def index_repo(
+    directory: Path, repo: str, expression_file: str, url: str
+) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     default_nix = directory.joinpath("default.nix").resolve()
     expr = """
 with import <nixpkgs> {};
@@ -36,17 +85,9 @@ callPackage (nur.repo-sources."%s" + "/%s") {}
         for name, pkg in raw_pkgs.items():
             pkg["_attr"] = name
             pkg["_repo"] = repo
-            position = pkg["meta"].get("position", None)
-            # TODO commit hash
-            prefix = f"https://github.com/nix-community/nur-combined/tree/master/repos/{repo}"
-            if position is not None and position.startswith("/nix/store"):
-                path_str, line = position.rsplit(":", 1)
-                path = Path(path_str)
-                stripped = path.parts[4:]
-                pkg["meta"]["position"] = f"{prefix}{stripped}#L{line}"
-            else:
-                pkg["meta"]["position"] = prefix
+            pkg["meta"]["position"] = resolve_source(pkg, repo, url)
             pkgs[f"nur.repos.{repo}.{name}"] = pkg
+
         return pkgs
 
 
@@ -59,7 +100,12 @@ def index_command(args: Namespace) -> None:
     pkgs: Dict[str, Any] = {}
 
     for (repo, data) in repos.items():
-        repo_pkgs = index_repo(directory, repo, data.get("file", "default.nix"))
+        repo_pkgs = index_repo(
+            directory,
+            repo,
+            data.get("file", "default.nix"),
+            data.get("url", "https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs"),
+        )
         pkgs.update(repo_pkgs)
 
     json.dump(pkgs, sys.stdout, indent=4)