One Liner to Download the Latest Release from Github Repo

One Liner to Download the Latest Release from Github Repo.md

• Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
• Use grep to find the line containing file URL
• Use cut and tr to extract the URL
• Use wget to download it

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
| wget -qi -

From batch scripts on Windows, you can call PowerShell without directly using its shell.:

First download grep.exe from this fairly popular but unmantained repo -because findstr sucks-

powershell iwr https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/raw/refs/heads/master/bin/grep.exe -OutFile grep.exe

Then you can download your files like this.

set url=https://api.github.com/repos/user/repo/releases/latest
powershell irm %url% | grep -o 'https.*download.*zip' | powershell iwr -OutFile file.zip

Just replace user/repo and zip.

for filtring and download something like beta release

curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/releases
| jq -r '.[] | select(.prerelease==true) | .assets[] | select(.browser_download_url | contains("tar.xz")) | .browser_download_url'
| wget -i-