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electron-download
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Downloads an Electron release zip from GitHub.
Used by electron-prebuilt and electron-packager
$ npm install --global electron-download
$ electron-download --version=0.31.1
var download = require('electron-download')
download({
version: '0.25.1',
arch: 'ia32',
platform: 'win32',
cache: './zips' // defaults to <user's home directory>/.electron
}, function (err, zipPath) {
// zipPath will be the path of the zip that it downloaded.
// If the zip was already cached it will skip
// downloading and call the cb with the cached zip path.
// If it wasn't cached it will download the zip and save
// it in the cache path.
})
If you don't specify arch
or platform
args it will use the built-in os
module to get the values from the current OS. Specifying version
is mandatory. If there is a SHASUMS256.txt
file available for the version
, the file downloaded will be validated against its checksum to ensure that it was downloaded without errors.
You can also use electron-download
to download the chromedriver
, ffmpeg
,
mksnapshot
, and symbols assets for a specific Electron release. This can be
configured by setting the chromedriver
, ffmpeg
, mksnapshot
, or
symbols
property to true
in the specified options object. Only one of
these options may be specified per download call.
You can force a re-download of the asset and the SHASUM
file by setting the
force
option to true
.
If you would like to override the mirror location, three options are available. The mirror URL is composed as url = ELECTRON_MIRROR + ELECTRON_CUSTOM_DIR + '/' + ELECTRON_CUSTOM_FILENAME
.
You can set the ELECTRON_MIRROR
or NPM_CONFIG_ELECTRON_MIRROR
environment variable or mirror
opt variable to use a custom base URL for grabbing Electron zips. The same pattern applies to ELECTRON_CUSTOM_DIR
and ELECTRON_CUSTOM_FILENAME
:
## Electron Mirror of China
ELECTRON_MIRROR="https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/electron/"
## or for a local mirror
ELECTRON_MIRROR="https://10.1.2.105/"
ELECTRON_CUSTOM_DIR="our/internal/filePath"
You can set ELECTRON_MIRROR in .npmrc
as well, using the lowercase name:
electron_mirror=https://10.1.2.105/
FAQs
download electron prebuilt binary zips from github releases
The npm package electron-download receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, electron-download popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that electron-download demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 8 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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