How do I download a tarball from GitHub using cURL

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I am trying to download a tarball from GitHub using cURL  but it does not seem to be redirecting     curl --insecure https   github com pinard Pymacs tarball v0 24-beta2  lt html gt  lt body gt You are being  lt a href  https   nodeload github com pinard Pymacs tarball v0 24-beta2  gt redirected lt  a gt   lt  body gt  lt  html gt    Note  wget works for me     wget --no-check-certificate https   github com pinard Pymacs tarball v0 24-beta2   However I want to use cURL because ultimately I want to untar it inline with something like     curl --insecure https   github com pinard Pymacs tarball v0 24-beta2   tar zx   I found that the URL after redirecting turned out to be https   download github com pinard-Pymacs-v0 24-beta1-0-gcebc80b tar gz  but I would like cURL to be smart enough to figure this out

User · Accepted Answer

Use the -L option to follow redirects   curl -L https   github com pinard Pymacs tarball v0 24-beta2   tar zx

User · Answer

with a specific dir  cd your dir  amp  amp  curl -L https   download calibre-ebook com 3 19 0 calibre-3 19 0-x86 64 txz   tar zx

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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

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All the other solutions require specifying a release version number which obviously breaks automation  This solution- currently tested and known to work with Github API v3- however can be used programmatically to grab the LATEST release without specifying any tag or release number and un-TARs the binary to an arbitrary name you specify in switch --one-top-level  quot pi-ap quot    Just swap-out user f1linux and repo pi-ap in below example with your own details and Bob s your uncle  curl -L https   api github com repos f1linux pi-ap tarball   tar xzvf - --one-top-level  quot pi-ap quot  --strip-components 1

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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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