Description
Download single files or directories from a GitHub repository without cloning its entire contents.
Features
- No need to manually create a raw GitHub url for individual files, just provide the web url.
- Recursively download entire directories.
- Download from private repos by setting a
GITHUB_TOKENenvironment variable. - Lightweight, easy to install, and easy to use.
Installation
The ghget package can be installed directly using pip.
pip install ghget
Usage
- Easily download single files given the GitHub url:
$ ghget https://github.com/naiquevin/pipdeptree/blob/master/pipdeptree.py
Downloading 'pipdeptree.py'...
Done!
- Recursively download a specific directory from a GitHub repo:
$ ghget https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/tree/master/scripts
Downloading 'scripts'...
Done!
$ tree
.
└── scripts
├── __init__.py
├── generate_pip_deps_from_conda.py
├── list_future_warnings.sh
├── no_bool_in_generic.py
├── pandas_errors_documented.py
├── sync_flake8_versions.py
├── tests
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── conftest.py
│ ├── test_no_bool_in_generic.py
│ ├── test_sync_flake8_versions.py
│ ├── test_use_pd_array_in_core.py
│ └── test_validate_docstrings.py
├── use_pd_array_in_core.py
├── validate_docstrings.py
└── validate_rst_title_capitalization.py
Options
usage: ghget [-h] url
positional arguments:
url The url for the file or directory you want to download.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
