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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 <html><body>You are being <a href="https://nodeload.github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v0.24-beta2">redirected</a>.</body></html> 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.
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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 ...
To download you just need to use the basic curl command but add your username and password like this curl --user username:password -o filename. tar. gz ftp://domain.com/directory/filename.tar.gz . To upload you need to use both the –user option and the -T option as follows.
Introduction : cURL is both a command line utility and library. One can use curl to download file or transfer of data/file using many different protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SFTP and more. The curl command line utility lets you fetch a given URL or file from the bash shell.
Use the -L option to follow redirects:
curl -L https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v0.24-beta2 | tar zx 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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