Github Download

Downloads a github repository, and then extracts it.

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);

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.

github-downloader