How do I download a tarball from GitHub using cURL? How do I download a tarball from GitHub using cURL? linux linux

How do I download a tarball from GitHub using cURL?


linux curl github wget

Use the -L option to follow redirects:

curl -L https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v0.24-beta2 | tar zx

linux curl github wget

The modernized way of doing this is:

curl -sL https://github.com/user-or-org/repo/archive/sha1-or-ref.tar.gz | tar xz

Replace user-or-org, repo, and sha1-or-ref accordingly.

If you want a zip file instead of a tarball, specify .zip instead of .tar.gz suffix.

You can also retrieve the archive of a private repo, by specifying -u token:x-oauth-basic option to curl. Replace token with a personal access token.

linux curl github wget

You can also use wget to »untar it inline«. Simply specify stdout as the output file (-O -):

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v0.24-beta2 -O - | tar xz

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