How to use DownGit with wget or curl?

[sugatoray]

How to use DownGit generated URL with wget or curl? Since the url does not have any file extension, it creates an index.html file. Also, is there any way that I can use DownGit generated URL in python to download the zipped file?

[MinhasKamal]

If you want to use wget, curl, or python, then you don't need DownGit. You can directly call GitHub API and download the files.

[sugatoray]

If you want to use wget, curl, or python, then you don't need DownGit. You can directly call GitHub API and download the files.

@MinhasKamal Could you please share an example code snippet for downloading a subdirectory of a github repo? Thank you.

[MinhasKamal]

@sugatoray The code for downloading GitHub directories should be pretty straight-forward-

1. take the GutHub directory link
2. hit the GitHub API (manual- https://docs.github.com/en/rest)
3. search through the directory and download all files

You will find many examples by Googling. Here is a python code I found- https://gist.github.com/pdashford/2e4bcd4fc2343e2fd03efe4da17f577d

[sugatoray]

@MinhasKamal Thank you, for the examples. Much appreciated!

[sugatoray]

@MinhasKamal Could you please activate the "discussion" tab, so if there are questions (which are not exactly issues), people can ask them under discussions? This will also keep the number of open issues low (hopefully).

I have another question for you: Is the following link also equivalent to appending a .zip at the end?

https://minhaskamal.github.io/DownGit/#/home?url=https://github.com/sugatoray/latex-project-report-template

I was trying to use downgit to open any folder in overleaf.com using their api. I know that this works.

https://www.overleaf.com/docs?snip_uri=https://github.com/sugatoray/latex-project-report-template/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

API: https://www.overleaf.com/dev

However, I would like to use the path to any folder (not the just the entire branch). Any suggestions?

[MinhasKamal]

No, you cannot use DownGit for this purpose. https://github.com/sugatoray/latex-project-report-template/archive/refs/heads/master.zip is a direct file/resource link. For your purpose, you have to use DownGit, or implement something like it on a server-side.

I am actually an embedded-system developer, so my knowledge of web-app is very limited.

[sugatoray]

@MinhasKamal Thank you, for the quick response.

[suntong]

If you want to use wget, curl, or python, then you don't need DownGit. You can directly call GitHub API and download the files.

Hi MinhasKamal, would you explain a bit how the download link work please? I.e., since you're providing a download link functionality, why disabling wget, curl downloading? (I took a look at your suggested GitHub API & python code, they are much more complicated than using wget, curl to download from an url)

For my case, I don’t want to download to my local drive but need a download link to do the download in my remote VPS instead.