can't download github project with curl command

问题

I used "curl -sO" command to download project files from this GitHub project link: http://github.com/ziyaddin/xampp/archive/master.zip

but, I couldn't download. There is error occured and says that:

Archive:  /home/ziyaddin/Desktop/master.zip
[/home/ziyaddin/Desktop/master.zip]   End-of-central-directory
signature not found.  Either this file is not   a zipfile, or it
constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the   latter case
the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on   the last
disk(s) of this archive. zipinfo:  cannot find zipfile directory in
one of /home/ziyaddin/Desktop/master.zip or
          /home/ziyaddin/Desktop/master.zip.zip, and cannot find 
/home/ziyaddin/Desktop/master.zip.ZIP, period.

but I can download this link with curl command: http://cloud.github.com/downloads/pivotal/jasmine/jasmine-standalone-1.3.1.zip

I think that it is because it is in cloud.github.com. I want to know how can I download from first link with curl command?

回答1:

$ curl -LOk https://github.com/ziyaddin/xampp/archive/master.zip
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   119  100   119    0     0    375      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   388
  0     0    0  1706    0     0   1382      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--  333k

you must use https://
you must use -L to follow redirects
you must use -k if your certificate file is missing

回答2:

You can also download a tarball (*.tar.gz) with:

curl -LkSs https://api.github.com/repos/ziyaddin/xampp/tarball -o master.tar.gz

or if you use the -O you can omit the filename, but then your saved ".tar.gz" file, is named by default to "tarball", so you have to rename it and add the ".tar.gz" filetype postfix. So use the (lowercase) -o as above. The rest:

Ss - use silent mode, but show errors, if any
k - use an insecure SSL connection without checking the TLS cert.

回答3:

$ curl -I http://github.com/ziyaddin/xampp/archive/master.zip
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: GitHub.com
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:24:53 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 178
Connection: close
Location: https://github.com/ziyaddin/xampp/archive/master.zip
Vary: Accept-Encoding

... so you need to use -L if you want to follow the HTTP redirect. Or just read Steven Penny's answer...

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16261100/cant-download-github-project-with-curl-command

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