How to download a folder from github

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I wished to download the mysite folder from this link  https   github com username repository master

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You can also just clone the repo  after cloning is done  just pick the folder or vile that you want   To clone    git clone https   github com somegithubuser somgithubrepo git   then go to the cloned DIR and find your file or DIR you want to copy

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You can download the complete folder under Clone or Download options  Git URL or Download Zip   There is a button of Download Zip  By using command you can download the complete folder on your machine but for that you need git on your machine  You can find the Git url uner git clone  https   github com url

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You can download a file folder from github Simply use  svn export  lt repo gt  trunk  lt folder gt  Ex  svn export https   github com lodash lodash trunk docs Note  You may first list the contents of the folder in terminal using svn ls  lt repo gt  trunk folder  yes  that s svn here  apparently in 2016 you still need svn to simply download some github files

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How to download a specific folder from a GitHub repo Here a proper solution according  to this post   Create a directory  mkdir github-project-name   cd github-project-name   Set up a git repo  git init  git remote add origin  lt URL-link of the repo gt    Configure your git-repo  to download only specific directories  git config core sparseCheckout true   enable this   Set the folder you like to be downloaded  e g  you only want to download the doc directory from https   github com project-tree master doc  echo  quot  absolute path to folder quot   gt   git info sparse-checkout   E g  if you only want to download the doc directory from your master repo  https   github com project-tree master doc  then your command is echo  quot doc quot   gt   git info sparse-checkout   Download your repo as usual  git pull origin master

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You can use Github Contents API to get an archive link and tar to retrieve a specified folder   Command line      curl https   codeload github com  owner   repo  tar gz master             tar -xz --strip 2  repo -master  folder path      For example  if you want to download examples with-apollo  folder from zeit next js  you can type this      curl https   codeload github com zeit next js tar gz master       tar -xz --strip 2 next js-master examples with-apollo

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If you want to automate the steps  the suggestions here will work only to an extent  I came across this tool called fetch and it worked quite fine for me  You can even specify the release  So  it takes a step to download and set it as executable  then fetch the required folder  curl -sSLfo   fetch   https   github com gruntwork-io fetch releases download v0 3 12 fetch linux amd64  chmod  x   fetch    fetch --repo  quot https   github com foo bar quot  --tag  quot   VERSION  quot  --source-path  quot  baz quot   tmp baz

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You have to download the whole project with either  Clone to desktop  button that will use native github program or  Download as zip    And then search that folder in downloaded project

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There is a button Download ZIP  If you want to do a sparse checkout there are many solutions on the site  For example here

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Dependency  cURL and 7-Zip   curl  url for downloading zip file    7z a -tzip  project name - branch name   folder path in that branch    for example   curl https   github com hnvn flutter shimmer archive master zip   7z a -tzip flutter shimmer-master examples

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Use GitZip online tool  It allows to download a sub-directory of a github repository as a zip file  No git commands needed

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