DRA - Download Release Assets from GitHub

A command line tool to download release assets from GitHub.

Why should I use dra? • Installation • Usage • License

Why should I use dra?

You can do everything dra does with the official GitHub cli.

dra helps you download release assets more easily:

• no authentication for public repository (you cannot use gh without authentication)
• Built-in generation of pattern to select an asset to download (with gh you need to provide glob pattern that you need to create manually).

Installation

Recommended

Download from the latest release.

Debian-based distributions

Download the latest .deb package from the release page and install it via:

sudo dpkg -i dra_x.y.z_amd64.deb # adapt version number 

From AUR

Arch Linux users can install dra from the AUR using an AUR helper. For example:

paru -S dra

From source

git clone https://github.com/devmatteini/dra && cd dra
make release
./target/release/dra --version

Usage

In order to download assets from private repositories (and avoid rate limit issues) export an environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN=<token>.

Follow the official guide to create a personal access token. The minimum set of scopes needed is: Full control of private repositories .

Interactive

Select and download an asset from a repository

$ dra download devmatteini/dra-tests

Select and download an asset to custom path

$ dra download --output /tmp/dra-example devmatteini/dra-tests

Select and download an asset from a specific release

$ dra download --tag 0.1.1 devmatteini/dra-tests

Install assets

Download and install an asset (on both interactive and non-interactive modes)

$ dra download --install devmatteini/dra-tests

Supported assets that can be installed are:

• Debian packages (.deb)
• Tar archive with executable (.tar.[gz|bz2|xz])
• Zip file with executable (.zip)

Non-Interactive

This mode is useful to be used in automated scripts.

First you need to generate an untagged asset name:

$ dra untag devmatteini/dra-tests
helloworld_{tag}.tar.gz

Copy the output and run:

$ dra download --select "helloworld_{tag}.tar.gz" devmatteini/dra-tests

This last command can be used in automated scripts without human interaction.

Shell completion

Generate shell completion

$ dra completion bash > dra-completion
$ source dra-completion

See all supported shell with dra completion -h

For more information on args/flags/options/commands run:

$ dra --help
$ dra <command> --help

Contributing

Take a look at the CONTRIBUTING.md guide.

License

dra is made available under the terms of the MIT License.

See the LICENSE file for license details.