How do I download a tarball from GitHub using cURL?

Question

I am trying to download a tarball from GitHub using cURL, but it does not seem to be redirecting:

$ curl --insecure https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/         


        

Answer 1

Use the -L option to follow redirects:

curl -L https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v0.24-beta2 | tar zx