ghget
A POSIX shell script to download files/directories from GitHub repositories.
It uses parallel transfers via curl, with a progress indicator.
Install
Run make install as root to install ghget to /usr/local/bin.
or
Copy ghget to a directory in your PATH.
Usage
ghget [-o path] url
Examples
Get a directory
ghget https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/airline-safety
Output to custom directory
ghget -o airlines https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/airline-safety
Get a single file
ghget https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/index.csv
Output to custom file
ghget -o list.csv https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/index.csv
Output to stdout
ghget -o - https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/index.csv
Get an entire repo
ghget https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data