hubget

CLI for Linux, MacOS, Windows

• Downloads files and directories from GitHub repos
• Does not create/modify local Git repos
• Files may be public or private (to which you have access)

Install

Make sure you have gh

hubget will use gh internally. So you won't have to bother with authentication when you have gh configured.

gh is an official GitHub CLI. Install it from here.

Install hubget

Download and extract a binary executable release:

• for macOS
• for Linux
• for Windows

Alternatively, get the executable via the command line

Linux

# download and extract to current working directory
wget -c -O - \
  https://github.com/rtmigo/hubget/releases/latest/download/hubget_linux_amd64.tgz \
  | tar -xz

# check it runs
./hubget --version

# maybe move to some directory in your $PATH
mv -v ./hubget "$HOME/.local/bin/"

Use

File to file

Download remote file.txt to local file localname.txt:

hubget https://github.com/user/repo/file.txt localname.txt

File to stdout

Just print the file to terminal:

hubget https://github.com/user/repo/file.txt

Or pipe to other process. For example, extract the file contents without saving the archive a file:

hubget https://github.com/user/repo/file.tgz | tar -xz

File into directory

Download remote file.txt to local targetdir/file.txt:

hubget https://github.com/user/repo/file.txt targetdir/

Or into the current working directory (note the dot at the end):

hubget https://github.com/user/repo/file.txt .

Directory to directory

Download all files from remote dir storing them inside local targetdir:

hubget https://github.com/user/repo/dir/ targetdir/

Disclaimer

This project not endorsed or associated with GitHub.

License

Copyright © 2022 Artsiom iG. Released under the MIT License.