Installing a dependency with Bower from URL and specify version

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I am trying to install a dependency with Bower using a URL  As of Bower documentation   Bower offers several ways to install packages         Using the dependencies listed in the current directory s bower json      bower install       Using a local or remote package      bower install  lt package gt        Using a specific version of a package      bower install  lt package gt   lt version gt        Using a different name and a specific version of a package      bower install  lt name gt   lt package gt   lt version gt     Where  lt package gt  can be any one of the following    A name that maps to a package registered with Bower  e g  jquery    A remote Git endpoint  e g   git   github com someone some-package git  Can be public or private    A local endpoint  i e   a folder that s a    Git repository     A shorthand endpoint  e g   someone some-package  defaults to GitHub     A URL to a file  including zip and tar files  Its contents will be extracted    However  then it says  that all the types except the URL allow to specify a version   How do I specify a version for a URL downloaded dependency

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If you use bower json file to specify your dependencies            dependencies                            photo-swipe    git github com dimsemenov PhotoSwipe git v3 0 x     bower 1 4  tested with that version  can read repositorios with uri format            photo-swipe    git   github com dimsemenov PhotoSwipe git v3 0 x               Just remember bower also searches for released versions and tags so you can point to almost everything  and can interprate basic query patterns like previous example  that will fetch latest minor update of version 3 0  tested from bower 1 3 5   Update  as the question description also mention using only a URL and no mention of a  github repository   Another example is to execute this command using the desired url  like   bower install gmap3MarkerWithLabel http   google-maps-utility-library-v3 googlecode com svn tags markerwithlabel 1 0 src markerwithlabel js -S   that command downloads your js library puts in  your destination path  gmap3MarkerWithLabel index js and automatically creates an entry in your bower json file called gmap3MarkerWithLabel        After that  you can only execute bower update gmap3MarkerWithLabel if needed   Funny thing if you do the process backwars  add manually the entry in bower json  an then bower install entryName  it doesn t work  you get a      bower                                ENOTFOUND Package   gmapV3MarkerWithLabel not found

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Just an update   Now if it s a github repository then using just a github shorthand is enough if you do not mind the version of course   GitHub shorthand    bower install desandro masonry

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Use a git endpoint instead of a package name   bower install https   github com jquery jquery git 2 0 3

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Use the following   bower install --save git   github com USER REPOS NAME git   More here  http   bower io  getting-started

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I believe that specifying version works only for git-endpoints  And not for folder zip ones  As when you point bower to a js-file folder zip you already specified package and version  except for js indeed   Because a package has bower json with version in it   Specifying a version in  bower install  makes sense when you re pointing bower to a repository which can have many versions of a package  It can be only git I think

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Targeting a specific commit  Remote  github   When using github  note that you can also target a specific commit  for example  of a fork you ve made and updated  by appending its commit hash to the end of its clone url  For example    dependencies        example    https   github com owner name repo name git 9203e6166b343d7d8b3bb638775b41fe5de3524c      Locally  filesystem   Or you can target a git commit in your local file system if you use your project s  git directory  like so  on Windows  note the forward slashes     dependencies        example    file   C  Projects my-project  git 9203e6166b343d7d8b3bb638775b41fe5de3524c      This is one way of testing library code you ve committed locally but not yet pushed to the repo

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Here s a handy short-hand way to install a specific tag or commit from GitHub via bower json        dependencies          your-library-name     lt GITHUB-USERNAME gt   lt REPOSITORY-NAME gt   lt TAG-OR-COMMIT gt           For example        dependencies          custom-jquery    jquery jquery 2 0 3

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Try bower install git   github com urin jquery balloon js git 1 0 3 --save where 1 0 3 is the tag number which you can get by reading tag under releases  Also for URL replace by git    in order for system to connect

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Just specifying the uri endpoint worked for me  bower 1 3 9     dependencies          jquery cookie    latest        everestjs    http   www everestjs net static st v2 js        Running bower install  I received following output   bower new           version for http   www everestjs net static st v2 js   bower resolve       http   www everestjs net static st v2 js   bower download      http   www everestjs net static st v2 js   You could also try updating bower   npm update -g bower   According to documentation  the following types of urls are supported   http   example com script js http   example com style css http   example com package zip  contents will be extracted  http   example com package tar  contents will be extracted

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Installs package from git and save to your bower json dependency block    bower register package-name git-endpoint version install package-name --save    --save will save the package name version in the bower json file inside the dependency block    Reference

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