Having trouble downloading Git archive tarballs from Private Repo

Question

I need the ability to download our application at specific tags, but I am unable to find a working solution for this. Downloading tarballs based on git tag seems promising b

Answer 1

Log into your Private Org on Github.com, then go here to create your token: https://github.com/settings/applications#personal-access-tokens

When trying to Curl into your Private Org, use the following:

curl --header 'Authorization: token ADDACCESSTOKENHERE' \
 --header 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.raw' \
 --remote-name \
 --location https://api.github.com/repos/ORG/PROJECT/contents/FILE

Replace what's in CAPS with your information...

Answer 2

For public repo, you have this gist listing some examples:

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/tarball/3.5.5 -O ~/tmp/cake_phpunit/phpunit.tgz

For a private repo, try passing your credential information in a post directive:

wget --quiet --post-data="login=${login}&token=${token}" --no-check-certificate https://github.com/$ACCOUNT/$PRIVATE_REPO/tarball/0.2.0.257m

Or use a curl command as in SO question "git equivalent to svn export or github workaround", also explained in great details in:
"A curl tutorial using GitHub's API".

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The OP Steven Jp reports having made the curl command work:

The final curl command ended up looking something like this:

curl -sL --user "${username}:${password}" https://github.com/$account/$repo/tarball/$tag_name > tarball.tar

(in multiple lines for readability)

curl -sL --user "${username}:${password}" 
  https://github.com/$account/$repo/tarball/$tag_name
  > tarball.tar

Answer 3

After creating an access token,

you can use wget:

wget --output-document=<version>.tar.gz \
    https://api.github.com/repos/<owner>/<repo>/tarball/<version>?access_token=<OAUTH-TOKEN>

or curl:

curl -L https://api.github.com/repos/<owner>/<repo>/tarball/<version>?access_token=<OAUTH-TOKEN> \
    > <version>.tar.gz

More information can be found in GitHub's API reference for archive links.