Github Downloader

Why make a NPM Package instead of a shell script?

• To support different Operating Systems and have a single codebase for the project

Features

• Download any repo
• Download any file in a repo
• Download any directory in a repo
• Save the downloaded contents in any given directory
• Default download directory is the present working directory from which the command is executed

Installation

1. Download and Install Subversion

   • Windows Installation https://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html
   • macOS Installation brew install subversion
   • Linux(Ubuntu) Installation sudo apt install subversion

2. Install the npm package npm i gh-downloader -g

Usage

ghdl -V #to get the version of the downloader

ghdl -h #to get the help menu

ghdl <url> #download in present working directory

ghdl <url> --save-here <path_to_download> #download in the given path

(or)

ghdl <url> -sh <path_to_download> #download in the given path

Examples

1. Downloading a repo

   ghdl https://github.com/muhesh-kumar/playlist-descriptor

2. Downloading a repo and saving it in an arbitrary path

   ghdl https://github.com/muhesh-kumar/playlist-descriptor -sh ../test/

3. Downloading a directory from a repo

   ghdl https://github.com/muhesh-kumar/playlist-descriptor/tree/main/static

4. Downloading a directory from a repo and saving it in an arbitrary path

   ghdl https://github.com/muhesh-kumar/playlist-descriptor/tree/main/static -sh bin/

5. Downloading a file from a repo

   ghdl https://github.com/muhesh-kumar/playlist-descriptor/tree/main/static/style.css

6. Downloading a file from a repo and saving it in an arbitrary path

   ghdl https://github.com/muhesh-kumar/playlist-descriptor/tree/main/static/style.css -sh ~/Desktop