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George
George

Reputation: 5691

Download repo as a zip file

I am trying to download as a zip file a private GitHub repo.

I am trying:

curl -H "Authorization: token f19..." -L https://github.com/Mylab/name/archive/release.zip

and it shows me:

{"error":"Not found"}

If I try:

curl -H "Authorization: token f19..." -L -o release.zip https://github.com/Mylab/name/archive/release.zip

it downloads a very small zip file which I can't open because it says "Either this file is not zip ......".

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1310

Answers (2)

jibe
jibe

Reputation: 576

This should solve your problem

curl -H "Authorization: token f19..." -Lk https://api.github.com/repos/Mylab/name/zipball/release -o release.zip

EDIT : you need to customize :

  • Mylab : user or organization
  • name : repository name
  • release : tag or branch targeted

EDIT 2: you need to have a token that have the whole "repo" category ticked to grant you full access to private repositories

EDIT 3: beware there must be only one space between token and f19...

Upvotes: 1

Zbynek Vyskovsky - kvr000
Zbynek Vyskovsky - kvr000

Reputation: 18865

The name after /archive/ has to be the name of the branch you want to download.

Usually it's master.zip or feature/my-feature.zip, release/my-release.zip etc. Just release.zip sounds suspicious as release/ is commonly only the prefix for the release branches in git.

So the correct URL/command are:

curl -H "Authorization: token f19..." -L https://github.com/Mylab/name/archive/master.zip 
curl -H "Authorization: token f19..." -L https://github.com/Mylab/name/archive/feature/my-feature.zip 
curl -H "Authorization: token f19..." -L https://github.com/Mylab/name/archive/release/august-release-001.zip

You can check the correct URL at the right on github, in the button Clone or download / Download ZIP when already chose correct branch from the list.

Upvotes: 0

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