Download single files from GitHub

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I guess most of you  developers  use any VCS  and I hope some of you use Git  Do you have any tip or trick how to get a download URL for a single file in a repository   I don t want the URL for displaying the raw file  in case of binaries it s for nothing   http   support github com discussions feature-requests 41-download-single-file  Is it even possible to use GitHub as a  download server    If we decide to switch to Google Code  is the mentioned functionality presented here   Or is there any free-of-charge hosting and VCS for open-source projects

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According to this gist  you can use wget or cURL     Click the file name in a GitHub repo  Click Raw to display the file contents  Copy the URL in your browser  In the command line  run either    wget --no-check-certificate --content-disposition https   URL-from-step3  curl -LJO https   URL-from-step3    One more   in RHEL7 6  run the following    wget https   URL-from-step3  --output-document FILE NAME

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This method works for Windows as I have never used MAC so I don t know what are the alternate keys in MAC for the keys which I m going to mention below    Let s talk about the CSV files  IF you want to download the CSV file    Go to that particular dataset that you want to download and click on it  You will see  Raw  button on the top right side of the dataset  Press  Alt  and then left click the  Raw  button  The whole CSV will download in your system    Remeber  you have to press Alt and left click simultaneously  Just clicking the  Raw  button will open up the CSV in the browser   I hope that helps

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My simple way to do it is   click the  Raw  button to get the file contents of github csv csv shown on the browser  Then create file csv and open it in a text editor like notepad Then copy the file content from the website and paste it on the file csv Your file csv is  github csv csv

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You can use the V3 API to get a raw file like this  you ll need an OAuth token   curl -H  Authorization  token INSERTACCESSTOKENHERE  -H  Accept  application vnd github v3 raw  -O -L https   api github com repos  owner   repo  contents  path  All of this has to go on one line  The -O option saves the file in the current directory  You can use -o filename to specify a different filename  To get the OAuth token follow the instructions here  https   help github com articles creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use I ve written this up as a gist as well  https   gist github com madrobby 9476733

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You should just do it with the raw URL of your file   For example to download the README of AFNetworking   curl https   raw githubusercontent com AFNetworking AFNetworking master README md  gt  ADREADME md    As it is a public repo you don t need any credentials  Please note the kind of url  raw githubusercontent com path to file

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For users with GitHub Enterprise you need to construct URL in following scheme   Invoke-WebRequest http   github mycompany com api v3 repos my-org my-repo contents myfiles file txt -Headers    Authorization   token 8d795936d2c1b2806587719b9b6456bd16549ad8    Details can be found here  http   artisticcheese blogspot com 2017 04 how-to-download-individual-files-from html

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This would definitely work  At least in Chrome  Right click on the  Raw  icon -  Save Link As

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This is what worked for me just now      Open the raw file in a seperate tab  Copy the whole thing in your notepad in a new file  Save the file in the extension it originally had   tested with a php file that i downloaded just now  at time of answer

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Go to the file you want to download  Click it to view the contents within the GitHub UI  In the top right  right click the Raw button  Save as

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You can try github-files-fetcher  it is a command line tool which downloads a single folder or file from a GitHub repo   Think a real scenario  you were visiting the following webpage page and wanna download the async subdirectory alone   https   github com reduxjs redux tree master examples     sorry for not being allowed to post images    With The github-files-fetcher  you should first copy the url of that page  which is https   github com reduxjs redux tree master examples async  and then run the command below in command line   fetcher --url https   github com reduxjs redux tree master examples async

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If you happen to use curl and firefox    you could use the cliget add-on which generates a curl call including all authentication mechanisms  aka cookies     So right click on the raw button cliget-  copy url for link  and then paste that into a shell  You will get your file even if you had to log-in to see it

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Copy page link simply In command line type  wget -L  exact copied link  Just replace blob to raw in step 2 Enter

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You can use curl this way   curl -OL https   raw githubusercontent com  lt username gt   lt repo-name gt   lt branch-name gt  path to file  O means that curl downloads the content L means that curl follows the redirection

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The page you linked to answers the first question  GitHub also has a download facility for things like releases  Google Code does not have Git at all  GitHub  Google Code and SourceForge  just to start  are free hosting  SourceForge might still do CVS

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GitHub Mate makes single file download effortless  just click the icon to download  currently it only work on Chrome

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On github  open the file you want to download Locate the  quot Raw quot  button adjacent to the  quot Blame quot  button Press  quot Alt quot  on your keyboard and left-click on your mouse at the same time The file will download automatically in a  quot  txt quot  format  it did for me  Change the  quot  txt quot  extension to  quot  csv quot  extension manually  This worked for me and I hope it does for you too

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In case you want to download a zip file from github using wget  wget -O filename zip https   github com downloads user repository filename zip raw true   see this website for more details

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Git does not support downloading parts of the repository  You have to download all of it  But you should be able to do this with GitHub   When you view a file it has a link to the  raw  version  The URL is constructed like so  https   raw githubusercontent com user repository branch filename   By filling in the blanks in the URL  you can use Wget or cURL  with the -L option  see below  or whatever to download a single file  Again  you won t get any of the nice version control features used by Git by doing this   Update  I noticed you mention this doesn t work for binary files  You probably shouldn t use binary files in your Git repository  but GitHub has a download section for each repository that you can use to upload files   If you need more than one binary  you can use a  zip file  The URL to download an uploaded file is   https   github com downloads user repository filename   Note that the URLs given above  from the links on github com  will redirect to raw githubusercontent com  You should not directly use the URL given by this HTTP 302 redirect because  per RFC 2616   Since the redirection might be altered on occasion  the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests

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Now it s possible to download any file or any particular folder within the repository using this google chrome extention   GitZip for github    link   https   chrome google com webstore detail gitzip-for-github ffabmkklhbepgcgfonabamgnfafbdlkn  Usage     In any GitHub public repos page  Just double click on the items you need  Click download button at bottom-right  See the progress dashboard and wait for browser trigger download  Get the ZIP file

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I think the new url structure is raw giturl for example   git file  raw

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Or try this   const https   require  https    const fs   require  fs    const DOMAIN    raw githubusercontent com    function writeFile data  fileName      fs appendFile fileName  data toString    err   gt        if  err          console log  error in writing file   err                  function EOF data      console log  EOF       function getFileName pathToFile      var result   pathToFile split         var splitLength   result length    return result splitLength - 1     function getFile branchName  username  repoName     pathToFile      pathToFile forEach item   gt        const path       username    repoName    branchName    item        const URL      DOMAIN   path        const options           hostname  DOMAIN        path  path            var fileName   getFileName item        https        get options  function res            console log res statusCode              if file not found            if  res statusCode     404              console log  FILE NOT FOUND              else                if file found              res on  data   data   gt  writeFile data  fileName              res on  end   data   gt  EOF data                              on  error   function res            console log  error in reading URL                      getFile  master    bansalAyush    InstagramClone     babelrc    README md

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I used the following format  and I feel it s important to inform about the path   https   github com user repository raw branch filename      the above is not very complete in my mind  https   github com  lt user gt   lt repoROOTname gt  blob master  lt path gt   lt filename gt  raw true   some said raw github com or raw instead of blob  but the 2nd line works for me and I hope will help others     2

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GitHub Releases feature Rather than link to download a specific file within the repo  you should use GitHub s Releases feature to associate downloadable data  such as compiled binaries  with the tagged version of the source code used to generate that data  https   github com blog 1547-release-your-software  We re excited to announce Releases  a workflow for shipping software to end users  Releases are first-class objects with changelogs and binary assets that present a full project history beyond Git artifacts  Releases are accompanied by release notes and links to download the software or source code  Following the conventions of many Git projects  releases are tied to Git tags  You can use an existing tag  or let releases create the tag when it s published

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To follow up with what thomasfuchs said but instead for GitHub Enterprise users here s what you can use   curl -H  Authorization  token INSERTACCESSTOKENHERE  -H  Accept  application vnd github v3 raw  -O -L https   your domain api v3 repos owner repo contents path  Also here s the API documentation https   developer github com v3 repos contents

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Go to DownGit - Enter Your URL - Simply Download No need to install anything or follow complex instructions  specially suited for large source files  Disclaimer  I am the author of this tool     You can download individual files and directories as zip  You can also create download link  and even give name to the zip file  Detailed usage- here

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There is a chrome extension called Enhanced Github  It will add a download button directly to the right of each file

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This is now possible in GitHub for any file  You need to translate your files for raw github com  For example  if your file is in your repository at   https   github com  lt username gt   lt repo gt  some directory file rb   Using wget you can grab the raw file from   https   raw github com  lt username gt   lt repo gt   lt branch gt  some directory file rb   Rails Composer is a great example of this

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I recently found a service called gitzip and its also open source   site - http   kinolien github io gitzip   repo - https   github com KinoLien gitzip  Vist the above site  enter the repo or directory URL  you can download individual files or whole directory as a zip file

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2019 Summary  There are a variety of ways to handle this  depending on how large the file is  whether or not you need to download folders in addition to files  and if you plan to do this manually or programmatically   There are six options summarized below  And for those that prefer a more hands-on explanation  I ve put together a YouTube video  Download Individual Files and Folders from GitHub   Also  I ve posted a similar answer on StackOverflow for those that need to download single folders directories from GitHub  as opposed to files      1  GitHub User Interface   There s a download button on most images  There s a download button on the repository s homepage  Of course  this downloads the entire repo  after which you would need to unzip the download and then manually drag out the specific files you need    2  Browser Context Menu   Go to the file on GitHub  right click on the  Raw  button to open the browser s context menu  From there  if you re using Google Chrome  select  Save Link As      Other browser s will have a similar UI  but the selection description may vary  For example  it will be listed as  Download Linked File  and  Download Linked File As  on Safari    3  Third Party Tools   There are a variety of browser extensions and web apps that can handle this  with DownGit being one of them  Simply paste in the GitHub URL to the file and press the  Download  button  Note that the link should be the GitHub com hosted repository view  as opposed to the direct file link  File link example  https   github com babel babel-eslint blob master lib parse js    4  Subversion   GitHub does not support git-archive  the git feature that would allow us to download specific files   GitHub does however  support a variety of Subversion features  one of which we can use for this purpose  Subversion is a version control system  an alternative to git   You ll need Subversion installed  Grab the GitHub URL for the file you want to download  You ll need to modify this URL  though  You want the link to the repository  followed by the word  trunk   and ending with the path to the nested file  In other words  using the same file link that I mentioned above  we would replace  blob master  with  trunk   Finally  open up a terminal  navigate to the directory that you want the content to get downloaded to  type in the following command  replacing the URL with the URL you constructed   svn export https   github com babel babel-eslint trunk lib parse js  and press enter    5  cURL   You ll need cURL installed  Go to the file on GitHub com  left click on the  Raw  button to get to the direct file link  copy this URL  open a terminal  navigate to the directory that you want the content to get downloaded to  type in the following command  replacing the filename with whatever you want to name it  and replacing the URL with the one you just copied  curl -o parse js https   raw githubusercontent com babel babel-eslint master lib parse js    6  GitHub API   This is actually what DownGit is using under the hood  Using GitHub s REST API  make a GET request to the content endpoint  The endpoint can be constructed as follows  https   api github com repos  owner  repo contents  path  After replacing the placeholders  an example endpoint is  https   api github com repos babel babel-eslint contents lib parse js  This gives you JSON data for that file  including a download URL  the same download URL that we used in the cURL example above   This method isn t all that useful for a single file  though  you d be more likely to use it for downloading a specific folder  as detailed in the answer that I linked to above

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Go to the script and click  quot Raw quot  Then copy the link and download it with the aria2c link  Eg  aria2c https   raw githubusercontent com kodamail gscript master color gsf Trick  the file I wanted to download is  https   github com kodamail gscript  blob  master color gsf just modify the link into https   raw githubusercontent com kodamail gscript master color gsf Remove the italic texts and add bold texts in the same format  it will give you the right link  which can be used with aria2c wget or with curl  I used aria2c here

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On the right hand side just below  Clone in Desktop  it say s  Download Zip file  Download Zip File Extract the file

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To download a file from a Github repo  use the  curl  command with the link to the raw file    curl https   raw githubusercontent com user repo filename --output filename   Add the --output option followed by the new filename to download the raw file to the newly created file

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