twglomski · April 11, 2017 21:59
diff --git a/howto-get-private-text-file.txt b/howto-get-private-text-file.txt
 Git is good at grabbing entire repositories, but what if you just want a single file in a private repo? This snippet, given a path, will grab a download url for a given file, then download it.

 Prereqs:
 1. You have a personal access token saved as github_access_token.key. To get a personal access token, go here: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line/
 2. jq is installed (On ubuntu: apt-get install jq)

 Replace the path of "PrivateOrg/PrivateRepo" with the path to the private repo of your choice, and "/subfolder/targetfile.py" with the file path to the desired file inside the private repo.

 curl -H "Authorization: token $(cat github_access_token.key)" $(curl -H "Authorization: token $(cat github_access_token.key)" https://api.github.com/repos/PrivateOrg/PrivateRepo/contents/subfolder/targetfile.py | jq '.download_url' -r)
	Git is good at grabbing entire repositories, but what if you just want a single file in a private repo? This snippet, given a path, will grab a download url for a given file, then download it.

	Prereqs:
	1. You have a personal access token saved as github_access_token.key. To get a personal access token, go here: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line/
	2. jq is installed (On ubuntu: apt-get install jq)

	Replace the path of "PrivateOrg/PrivateRepo" with the path to the private repo of your choice, and "/subfolder/targetfile.py" with the file path to the desired file inside the private repo.

	curl -H "Authorization: token $(cat github_access_token.key)" $(curl -H "Authorization: token $(cat github_access_token.key)" https://api.github.com/repos/PrivateOrg/PrivateRepo/contents/subfolder/targetfile.py \| jq '.download_url' -r)