Use gh cli to download Github Release from public repo. #3820
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Hello, Can I use gh cli to download publicly available GitHub releases without GitHub authentication. I would like to use such command in my script for customer to download GitHub releases and perform next operations. However e.g.
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Hi, right now this is not possible. We may allow this in the future #2680, but for now, you will have to set either the GH_TOKEN via environment variable or go through the Thanks for sharing your use-case! |
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Hi, right now this is not possible. We may allow this in the future #2680, but for now, you will have to set either the GH_TOKEN via environment variable or go through the
gh auth login
flow to do this. Authenticating also helps to avoid hitting the hourly rate limit for requests which is really low for un-authenticated requests.Thanks for sharing your use-case!