Using this repository https://api.github.com/repos/pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX/releases/latest
With an asset name of pdf2htmlEX-0.18.8.rc1-master-20200630-Ubuntu-bionic-x86_64.deb
{
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX/releases/assets/22311467",
"id": 22311467,
"node_id": "MDEyOlJlbGVhc2VBc3NldDIyMzExNDY3",
"name": "pdf2htmlEX-0.18.8.rc1-master-20200630-Ubuntu-bionic-x86_64.deb",
"label": "",
"uploader": {
"login": "stephengaito",
"id": 1078196,
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjEwNzgxOTY=",
"avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1078196?v=4",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/stephengaito",
"html_url": "https://github.com/stephengaito",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/stephengaito/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/stephengaito/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/stephengaito/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/stephengaito/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/stephengaito/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/stephengaito/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/stephengaito/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/stephengaito/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/stephengaito/received_events",
"type": "User",
"site_admin": false
},
"content_type": "application/x-debian-package",
"state": "uploaded",
"size": 4561732,
"download_count": 32103,
"created_at": "2020-06-30T14:42:24Z",
"updated_at": "2020-06-30T14:43:00Z",
"browser_download_url": "https://github.com/pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX/releases/download/v0.18.8.rc1/pdf2htmlEX-0.18.8.rc1-master-20200630-Ubuntu-bionic-x86_64.deb"
}
This get the full url (browser_download_url) this line worked for me
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX/releases/latest | jq -r '.assets[] | select(.name=="pdf2htmlEX-0.18.8.rc1-master-20200630-Ubuntu-bionic-x86_64.deb").browser_download_url'