fetch makes it easy to download files, folders, or release assets from a specific commit, branch, or tag of a public or private GitHub repo.
Download folder /baz from tag 0.1.3 of a GitHub repo and save it to /tmp/baz:
fetch --repo="https://github.com/foo/bar" --tag="0.1.3" --from-path="/baz" /tmp/baz
Download the release asset foo.exe from release 0.1.5 and save it to /tmp:
fetch --repo="https://github.com/foo/bar" --tag="0.1.5" --release-asset="foo.exe" /tmp
See more examples in the Examples section.
- Download from a specific git tag, branch, or commit SHA.
- Download a single file, a subset of files, or all files from the repo.
- Download a binary asset from a specific release.
- Download from public repos, or from private repos by specifying a GitHub Personal Access Token.
- When specifying a git tag, you can can specify either exactly the tag you want, or a Tag Constraint Expression to do things like "get the latest non-breaking version" of this repo. Note that fetch assumes git tags are specified according to Semantic Versioning principles.
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is fairly straightforward to do with public GitHub repos, as you can usually curl or wget a public URL, it's much
trickier to do with private GitHub repos, as you have to make multiple API calls, parse JSON responses, and handle
authentication. Fetch makes it possible to handle all of these cases with a one-liner.
Download the fetch binary from the GitHub Releases tab.
fetch assumes that a repo's tags are in the format vX.Y.Z or X.Y.Z to support Semantic Versioning parsing. This allows you to specify a Tag Constraint Expression to do things like "get the latest non-breaking version" of this repo. Note that fetch also allows downloading a specific tag not in SemVer format.
fetch [OPTIONS] <local-download-path>
The supported options are:
--repo(Required): The fully qualified URL of the GitHub repo to download from (e.g. https://github.com/foo/bar).--tag(Optional): The git tag to download. Can be a specific tag or a Tag Constraint Expression.--branch(Optional): The git branch from which to download; the latest commit in the branch will be used. If specified, will override--tag.--commit(Optional): The SHA of a git commit to download. If specified, will override--branchand--tag.--from-path(Optional): The source path to download from the repo (e.g.--from-path=/folderwill download the/folderpath and all files below it). By default, all files are downloaded from the repo unless--from-pathor--release-assetis specified. This option can be specified more than once.--release-asset(Optional): The name of a release asset--that is, a binary uploaded to a GitHub Release--to download. This option can be specified more than once. It only works with the--tagoption.--api-token(Optional): A GitHub Personal Access Token. Required if you're downloading from private GitHub repos. NOTE: fetch will also look for this token using theAPI_TOKENorAPI_OAUTH_TOKENenv var, which we recommend using instead of the command line option to ensure the token doesn't get saved in bash history.
The supported arguments are:
<local-download-path>(Required): The local path where all files should be downloaded (e.g./tmp).
Run fetch --help to see more information about the flags.
The value of --tag can be expressed using any operators defined in hashicorp/go-version.
Specifically, this includes:
| Tag Constraint Pattern | Meaning |
|---|---|
1.0.7 |
Exactly version 1.0.7 |
=1.0.7 |
Exactly version 1.0.7 |
!=1.0.7 |
The latest version as long as that version is not 1.0.7 |
>1.0.7 |
The latest version greater than 1.0.7 |
<1.0.7 |
The latest version that's less than 1.0.7 |
>=1.0.7 |
The latest version greater than or equal to 1.0.7 |
<=1.0.7 |
The latest version that's less than or equal to 1.0.7 |
~>1.0.7 |
The latest version that is greater than 1.0.7 and less than 1.1.0 |
~>1.0 |
The latest version that is greater than 1.0 and less than 2.0 |
Download /modules/foo/bar.sh from a GitHub release where the tag is the latest version of 0.1.x but at least 0.1.5, and save it to /tmp/bar:
fetch --repo="https://github.com/foo/bar" --tag="~>0.1.5" --from-path="/modules/foo/bar.sh" /tmp/bar
Download all files in /modules/foo from a GitHub release where the tag is exactly 0.1.5, and save them to /tmp:
fetch --repo="https://github.com/foo/bar" --tag="0.1.5" --from-path="/modules/foo" /tmp
Download all files from a private GitHub repo using the GitHUb oAuth Token 123. Get the release whose tag is exactly 0.1.5, and save the files to /tmp:
GITHUB_TOKEN=123 # can also use GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN instead
fetch --repo="https://github.com/foo/bar" --tag="0.1.5" /tmp
Download all files from the latest commit on the sample-branch branch, and save them to /tmp:
fetch --repo="https://github.com/foo/bar" --branch="sample-branch" /tmp/josh1
Download all files from the git commit f32a08313e30f116a1f5617b8b68c11f1c1dbb61, and save them to /tmp:
fetch --repo="https://github.com/foo/bar" --commit="f32a08313e30f116a1f5617b8b68c11f1c1dbb61" /tmp/josh1
Download the release asset foo.exe from a GitHub release where the tag is exactly 0.1.5, and save it to /tmp:
fetch --repo="https://github.com/foo/bar" --tag="0.1.5" --release-asset="foo.exe" /tmp
This code is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt.