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Github Download
Downloads a github repository, and then extracts it.
Usage
npm install github-download --save
First you need to set the user agent. Github requires your requests to their api to have a user agent. Read more here;
githubDownload.setUserAgent('userAgent');
Download Repository
githubDownload(options, callback);
Options
username String. Username of owner of repository
repo String. Name of repository to download.
output String. Path to extract the repository to. We do not create a containing folder.
version String. Currently only "latest" is supported. Downloads latest release.
FAQs
Downloads and extracts a github repository
The npm package github-downloader receives a total of 5 weekly downloads. As such, github-downloader popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that github-downloader demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 07 Apr 2015
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