It seemed logical that there should also be a way to also download artifacts from the latest release, so I asked around, but it turns out, there is no URL available to do that directly. Īnd there is this URL, which which always takes us to the latest release of a project. (The part after tag/ is the what we specified when we created the release.)Īrtifacts from this particular release can be downloaded with the URL.

We can access a particular release with a URL like. However, there is no direct URL to download artifacts from the latest release, so we need a bit of logic in our scripts to do that. It turned out that downloading the artifacts for a specific version is easy, we can simply build an URL with the version number to access the artifact. Lately I’ve been working on an application for which the releases are published on GitHub, and I wanted to create an install script which always downloads the latest release. The source code of our repository is packaged with every release, and we also have the possibility to upload some artifacts alongside, for example the binaries or executables that we’ve built. Releases is an important feature of GitHub, with which we can publish packaged versions of our project.

Download artifacts from a latest GitHub release with bash and PowerShell

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