Active Oldest Votes. I needed to download code from a repository that didn't have a zip file, and this worked perfectly. I would have never figured out what I'm doing from the github help. Awesome info my friend. There have been many times where I have wanted to download different branches without having to install git.
Honestly I don't understand why there just isn't a link for this Wish this worked, but no luck here: github. I'm echoing the original commenter I just don't understand why it's so f'ing hard to download source code I see on github. I don't want a git client, I don't want to learn git, I just want to pull down the files that are right in front of my face :- — Eric.
Eric - it worked for me: github. Excellent tip! Show 5 more comments. Kurt Kurt 4, 2 2 gold badges 25 25 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges. Is there any way not to have to download the entire repository? Say, if the repository is a "plugins" repo and you only want one plugin?
Manav Kataria Manav Kataria 4, 3 3 gold badges 22 22 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. Also, if you want a tarball instead of a zip, you can change that URL to say ". CLICK on it! Thanks SteveWash. That's just crazy.
I also thought the Code tab was already selected. That's really poor UI but, okay, once you learn that trick, you'll know it forever.. If you name your tags like v1. Is that a bug with github? To download your repository as zip file via curl : curl -L -o master.
That said, unless the owner of the codebase checks a box otherwise, their codebase can be downloaded onto your computer, packed into a. Alternatively, you can easily clone a file or repository using a few simple commands on GitHub. A fork is simply your own copy of a repository. I have found a workaround for large files up to MB but as far as I know it is not possible to drop larger files to github so this should work with all files. Decode it using your favorite decoder. Kif11 - it's possible with basic auth without the user having to explicitly create a token first.
I don't know if things changed since May, but neither token nor basic auth works for me. I'm getting. I thought this was no longer working, however what I did wrong is not adding the correct permissions to the token I was generating. There is maybe a less permissive alternative that still allows you to just read. Originally, I was having trouble with the Token, itself.
With that being said, I would imagine that something like the following, should do the trick. Skip to content. Sign in Sign up. Instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Last active Oct 14, Code Revisions 7 Stars Forks Embed What would you like to do? This way I don't have to worry about updating a local file. You can use external server rawgithub.
More info you find in this question. Get the raw url of the file from github. Paste the git url above in the input box.
It will generate two url's, one for development and other for production purpose. Accessing raw files will directly hit on GitHub servers and increase server load.
For those who ended up in this post and just want to get the raw link from an image in GitHub:. If it is the case of an image, you can just add '? After searching for this same functionality, I ended up writing my own PHP script to act as a proxy. So using this script, I can pass over the RAW link from Github , have the script set the correct headers, and then output the file as if it were coming from my own server.
This script can also be used with a secure application to pull in non-secure scripts without throwing SSL errors warning of "Non-secure links used".
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