How to get certain commit from GitHub project

Question

I need to download the Facebook API from GitHub. Normally, I just click on the \'Downloads\" tab to download the latest source code. In this case, I need an older commit: 91

Answer 1

To just download a commit using the 7-digit SHA1 short form do:

Working Example:

https://github.com/python/cpython/archive/31af650.zip  

Description:

 `https://github.com/username/projectname/archive/commitshakey.zip`

If you have the long hash key 31af650ee25f65794b75d4dfefed6fe4758781c1, just get the first 7 chars 31af650. It's the default for GitHub.