Gradle - get URL of dependency artifact

Question

I want to download the dependency artifacts manually in the future after Gradle has all the dependency artifacts available, hence I would like to get the URLs which Gradle u

Answer 1

use gson for a example:

dependencies {
    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.code.gson/gson
    compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.6'
}

create a task to print url:

task getURLofDependencyArtifact() {
    doFirst {
        project.configurations.compile.dependencies.each { dependency ->
            for (ArtifactRepository repository : project.repositories.asList()) {
                def url = repository.properties.get('url')
                //https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/google/code/gson/gson/2.8.6/gson-2.8.6.jar
                def jarUrl = String.format("%s%s/%s/%s/%s-%s.jar", url.toString(),
                        dependency.group.replace('.', '/'), dependency.name, dependency.version,
                        dependency.name, dependency.version)
                try {
                    def jarfile = new URL(jarUrl)
                    def inStream = jarfile.openStream();
                    if (inStream != null) {
                        println(String.format("%s:%s:%s", dependency.group, dependency.name, dependency.version)
                                + " -> " + jarUrl)
                        return
                    }
                } catch (Exception ignored) {
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

run ./gradlew getURLofDependencyArtifact

Task :getURLofDependencyArtifact

com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.6 -> https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/google/code/gson/gson/2.8.6/gson-2.8.6.jar

PS:the result dependency your project's

repositories {
    jcenter()
    mavenCentral()
}

so, the result maybe:

Task :getURLofDependencyArtifact

com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.6 -> https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/google/code/gson/gson/2.8.6/gson-2.8.6.jar