This action downloads an asset from a GitHub release and provides some release details as output. Private repos are supported.

Required The name of the file to be downloaded.

The org/repo containing the release. Defaults to the current repo.

The GitHub token. Defaults to ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

The release version to fetch from in the form tags/<tag_name> or <release_id>. Defaults to latest.

Target file path. Only supports paths to subdirectories of the GitHub Actions workspace directory.

Boolean indicating if file is to be interpreted as regular expression. Defaults to false.

The Github API base URL. Useful if you are using Github Enterprise.

The version number of the release tag. Can be used to deploy for example to itch.io

Also called a title of a release. Defaults to the same value as version if not specified when creating a release.

The body (description) of a release.

Save a single asset as a new file <workspace>/plague-linux.zip:

uses: dsaltares/fetch-gh-release-asset@master
with:
  repo: 'dsaltares/godot-wild-jam-18'
  version: 'tags/v0.1.18'
  file: 'plague-linux.zip'
  token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Save a single asset as a new file <workspace>/subdir/plague-linux.zip:

uses: dsaltares/fetch-gh-release-asset@master
with:
  repo: 'dsaltares/godot-wild-jam-18'
  version: 'tags/v0.1.18'
  file: 'plague-linux.zip'
  target: 'subdir/plague-linux.zip'
  token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Save a range of assets as new files in directory <workspace>:

uses: dsaltares/fetch-gh-release-asset@master
with:
  repo: 'dsaltares/godot-wild-jam-18'
  version: 'tags/v0.1.18'
  regex: true
  file: "plague-.*\\.zip"
  token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Save a range of assets as new files in directory <workspace>/subdir:

uses: dsaltares/fetch-gh-release-asset@master
with:
  repo: 'dsaltares/godot-wild-jam-18'
  version: 'tags/v0.1.18'
  regex: true
  file: "plague-.*\\.zip"
  target: 'subdir/'
  token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

This action only supports Linux runners as this is a docker container action. If you encounter Error: Container action is only supported on Linux then you are using non-linux runner.