Downloading an artifact from actions on someone else's repository

Question

This problem seems really simple. I'm trying to download a pre-built binary for a program from somebody's github repo.

They suggest that I can do this: "You can also download pre-built binaries from GitHub Actions artifacts."

But it turns out that I have no idea what that means!

The file is not in the actions page (I'm not sure if it should be) and when I try:

curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" https://api.github.com/repos/nbdd0121/wsld/actions/artifacts/42682371/zip

I receive { "message": "You must have the actions scope to download artifacts.", "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/reference/actions#download-an-artifact" }

But this documentation implies that I need to Build an app in order to download a file???

Can this possibly be correct?

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

This works for me:

curl.exe `
--netrc-file C:\Users\Steven\_netrc `
-L `
-o wsldhost.exe.zip `
https://api.github.com/repos/nbdd0121/wsld/actions/artifacts/42682371/zip

Where _netrc looks like this:

default login <USERNAME> password <PERSONAL ACCESS TOKEN>

https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact/issues/89