PowerShell script used to download and extract the latest release zip file of a private project from the GitHub API

PS-GetLatestReleaseZip.ps1

## PowerShell script used to download and extract the latest release zip file of a private project from the GitHub API ##

# Parameters
$orga = "[YOUR_ORGANIZATION]"
$repo = "[YOUR_PROJECT]"
$apiUrl = "https://api.github.com/repos/$orga/$repo/releases/latest"
$token = "[YOUR_TOKEN]"
$folder = "C:\[YOUR_PATH]"
$date = Get-Date -format "yyyy-MM-dd"
$zip = "$folder\$repo-$date.zip"

# Get the URL of the latest release from the GitHub API
$res = Invoke-RestMethod -Headers @{ "Authorization" = "token $token" } -Uri $apiUrl
$dlUrl = $res.assets.url

# Clean the output folder before to download and extract the zip file
Get-ChildItem -Path $folder -Recurse | Foreach-object {Remove-item -Recurse -path $_.FullName}

# Download the zip file from the latest release
$wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$wc.Headers.Add("Authorization", "token $token")
$wc.Headers.Add("Accept", "application/octet-stream")
$wc.Headers.Add("user-agent", "PowerShell Script")
$wc.DownloadFile($dlUrl, $zip)

# Extract the zip file in the specified folder
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem
[System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory($zip, $folder)

I tried the PS extract-archive method; and it kept failing with UTF-8 encoded characters. This ps script gave me the incentive to look at the ExtractToDirectory method, and i saw an encoding attribute for the extracted filenames...

Nice script:

For those who might be interested:
[System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory($productZip, $temp, [System.Text.Encoding]::ascii)