electron-download

downloads a electron release zip from github

used by electron-prebuilt and electron-packager

usage

$ npm install --global electron-download
$ electron-download --version=0.31.1

var download = require('electron-download')

download({
  version: '0.25.1',
  arch: 'ia32',
  platform: 'win32',
  cache: './zips' // defaults to <users home directory>/.electron
}, function (err, zipPath) {
  // zipPath will be the path of the zip that it downloaded.
  // if the zip was already cached it will skip
  // downloading and call the cb with the cached zip path
  // if it wasn't cached it will download the zip and save
  // it in the cache path
})

if you don't specify arch or platform args it will use require('os') to get them from the current OS. specifying version is mandatory.

If you would like to override the mirror location, three options are available. The mirror URL is composed as url = ELECTRON_MIRROR + ELECTRON_CUSTOM_DIR + '/' + ELECTRON_CUSTOM_FILENAME.

You can set the ELECTRON_MIRROR or NPM_CONFIG_ELECTRON_MIRROR env or mirror opt variable to use a custom base URL for grabbing electron zips. The same pattern applies to ELECTRON_CUSTOM_DIR and ELECTRON_CUSTOM_FILENAME

## Electron Mirror of China
ELECTRON_MIRROR="https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/electron/"

## or for a local mirror
ELECTRON_MIRROR="https://10.1.2.105/"
ELECTRON_CUSTOM_DIR="our/internal/filePath"