How can I download a single raw file from a privat

Question

On the CI server, I want to fetch a config file that we maintain on Github so it can be shared between many jobs. I'm trying to get this file via curl, but these approaches both fail (I get a 404):

# As advised by the oAuth docs
curl -H 'Authorization: token the_token' -L -o setup.sh https://raw.github.com/org/repo/file

# The url of the raw file after clicking to view it
curl -L https://raw.github.com/org/repo/file?login=username&token=the_token 

Answer 1

Just an addition to the accepted answer, If you are using Github Enterprise url is slightly different:

curl -H 'Authorization: token [your token]' \
-H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.raw' \
-L https://[your domain]/api/v3/repos/[owner]/[repo-name]/contents/[path of file]

Answer 2

I ran into an authentication error when the url was redirected to Amazon S3:

Only one auth mechanism allowed; only the X-Amz-Algorithm query parameter...

Changing from the Authorization: token X header to the ?access_token=<token> query param worked for me.

Answer 3

I was struggling with this for a few minutes until I realized all that is needed is to wrap the url in quotes to escape the ampersand.

curl "https://raw.github.com/org/repo/file?login=username&token=the_token"

That worked for me in my private repo.

Answer 4

The previous answers don't work (or don't work anymore).

You can use the V3 API to get a raw file like this (you'll need an OAuth token):

curl -H 'Authorization: token INSERTACCESSTOKENHERE' -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.raw' -O -L https://api.github.com/repos/owner/repo/contents/path

All of this has to go on one line. The -O option saves the file in the current directory. You can use -o filename to specify a different filename.

To get the OAuth token follow the instructions here: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use

I've written this up as a gist as well: https://gist.github.com/madrobby/9476733

EDIT: API references for the solution are as follows:

• https://developer.github.com/v3/#authentication
• https://developer.github.com/v3/media/#request-specific-version
• https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/#get-contents

Answer 5

You can do this with a raw link.

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/owner/repo/branchname/path/to/file

Answer 6

I know this is an old question, but none of the solutions proposed above worked for me. Perhaps the API has changed since then.

This worked:

curl -H 'Authorization: token [insert your token here]' -o output.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/[organization]/[repo]/[branch]/[path to file]