- Go to the file you want to download.
- Click it to view the contents within the GitHub UI.
- In the top right, right click the
Rawbutton. - Save as...
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Plain and simple: How to download files from github?
Is there a way to download all the files all at once, or do i have to do it manually one by one?
(Noob question) how to download a file?
Github is a code repository. You generally will not find a packaged installer for an application there unless it's a setup script. What you are downloading is the source code of an application. "git" is a tool for keeping track of changes/versions of your code, and when you clone or download a .zip of the code in a repository, it's usually so that you can edit your own copy of the code or run a script to set it up.
If there are installation instructions for what you are downloading they will be located in the README.md file. Unfortunately I can't view the pic you linked.
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Can I download individual files or entire repositories?
Does this work with private repositories?
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- Go to the file you want to download.
- Click it to view the contents within the GitHub UI.
- In the top right, right click the
Rawbutton. - Save as...
Git does not support downloading parts of the repository. You have to download all of it. But you should be able to do this with GitHub.
When you view a file it has a link to the "raw" version. The URL is constructed like so
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/user/repository/branch/filename
By filling in the blanks in the URL, you can use Wget or cURL (with the -L option, see below) or whatever to download a single file. Again, you won't get any of the nice version control features used by Git by doing this.
Update: I noticed you mention this doesn't work for binary files. You probably shouldn't use binary files in your Git repository, but GitHub has a download section for each repository that you can use to upload files. If you need more than one binary, you can use a .zip file. The URL to download an uploaded file is:
https://github.com/downloads/user/repository/filename
Note that the URLs given above, from the links on github.com, will redirect to raw.githubusercontent.com. You should not directly use the URL given by this HTTP 302 redirect because, per RFC 2616: "Since the redirection might be altered on occasion, the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests."
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