[Cheryl]

This is really annoying for scripting purposes, if you pull the Master repo which is the cleanest URL, it might not be a tagged release version.

ex. https://github.com/company/free-software/archive/master.zip

[Catherine]

Tried this in the past, but it didn’t work:

https://gist.github.com/steinwaywhw/a4cd19cda655b8249d908261a62687f8

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
| wget -qi -

[Carl]

10 years nobody knows.

[Amber]

it seems to depend on what you are downloading, if it’s a single asset you can use

https://github.com/owner/repository/releases/latest/download/ASSET.ext

…. but for the entire repo zip file, I can’t say.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24085978/github-url-for-latest-release-of-the-download-file

[Catherine]

@Amber, seems Reddit agrees?

Download asset from latest release on github
byu/pretty_lame_jokes inlinux4noobs

[Billy]

That’s the point, it makes no sense.

For a WordPress plugin like:

https://github.com/littlebizzy/plugin-blacklist/releases/latest/download/...

The version number changes every time. How to grab the latest plugin zip file URL?

like

https://github.com/littlebizzy/plugin-blacklist/releases/latest.zip

seems impossible…

[Gary]

this should really not be so complicated lol

[Jacob]

interestingly,

https://github.com/littlebizzy/plugin-blacklist/releases/latest/download/latest.zip

will redirect to:

https://github.com/littlebizzy/plugin-blacklist/releases/download/2.0.1/latest.zip

but its a “Not Found” after that.

[Ryan]

also:

https://github.com/littlebizzy/plugin-blacklist/archive/latest.zip

will redirect to:

https://codeload.github.com/littlebizzy/plugin-blacklist/zip/latest

and then “404: Not Found”

[Theresa]

https://stackoverflow.com/a/76804894/1718491

a bit heavy but:

echo "fetching latest version"
latest_version=`
curl https://github.com/$owner/$repo/releases/latest --verbose 2>&1 |
grep Location |
sed -e "s|.*/v||"`

echo "version: $latest_version"

# if the version number is in the file name, append it
# example:
# file=somefile-$latest_version.ext

link="https://github.com/$owner/$repo/releases/download/v$latest_version/$file"

echo "$link"

curl -o "destination/folder/$file" -L "$link"

[Judith]

phewwww.

[Sara]

latest_tag=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/swagger-api/swagger-ui/releases/latest | sed -Ene '/^ *"tag_name": *"(v.+)",$/s//\1/p')
echo "Using version $latest_tag"
curl -JLO https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui/archive/$latest_tag.tar.gz

kinda nice approach without needing jq or weird utilities.

https://gist.github.com/gvenzl/1386755861fb42db492276d3864a378c?permalink_comment_id=3651279#gistcomment-3651279

[Karen]

https://github.com/littlebizzy/plugin-blacklist/releases/latest/download/plugin-blacklist.zip

redirects to

https://github.com/littlebizzy/plugin-blacklist/releases/download/2.0.1/plugin-blacklist.zip

gets weirder and weirder.

[Danielle]

It’s truly ridiculous that we must parse JSON in the GitHub API for this, instead of them just having some easy 302 redirect or something for every repo on their platform?

[Terry]

GITHUB_PLUGIN_BLACKLIST_LATEST_TAG=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/littlebizzy/plugin-blacklist/releases/latest | sed -n 's/.*"tag_name": *"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p')
GITHUB_PLUGIN_BLACKLIST_DOWNLOAD_URL="https://github.com/littlebizzy/plugin-blacklist/archive/refs/tags/${GITHUB_PLUGIN_BLACKLIST_LATEST_TAG}.zip"

and then

ss_wget /tmp/plugin-blacklist.zip "${GITHUB_PLUGIN_BLACKLIST_DOWNLOAD_URL}"

Works great for now!

https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/bash/ss-functions.txt

https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/bash/ss-install-wordpress-mu-plugins.txt

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