melonis45 / githubdownloader

Github CLI downloader

GithubDownloader

A GitHub CLI utility that lets you download repositories' release assets without the need of opening a browser and searching

Features:

• Lists all you might need to know when choosing the repository and release asset.
• Allows for instant zip file extraction (other zip files like tar.gz should work).
• Cross platform support for Windows and unix systems

How to use:

1. Download and extract the latest release and unzip the contents.
2. You can either make a token.txt file or run GihubtDownloader.exe for the first time and let it make one for you.
3. Place your github token into the token.txt file.
4. Re-run GithubDownloader.exe and enjoy!.

Command Line Arguements: When using command line arguements, 3 parameters are specifed, here is the style of command the program accepts:

GithubDownloader.exe <repo-owner>/<repo-name> <path-to-download-into> <extract>

An example of this would be the following:

GithubDownloader.exe MelonIs45/GithubDownloader C:/Demo/Output true

NOTE: If there are any paths that have spaces in them, surround them with ".

When you run with arguments, you will still have to select the asset you'd like to download.

Building

Prerequisites to build:

• 64bit dotnet 5.0

How to build:

• Enter the downloaded folder and run dotnet run in the current directory.
• Build files will be in ~/bin/Debug/net5.0/.

Packages used:

octokit.net - used for interation with the GitHub API

nfd-sharp - used for the folder browser as a wrapper for the nativefiledialog library

Why do you need a token?

The need for a GitHub token is there for the webclient to provide the token for downloading files from GitHub, as well as for increasing the API request limit, allowing you to make more requests if that is what you might want.

If you don't know how to obtain your token, you can recieve it here.