Download a single file from a private GitHub repo. You'll need an access token as described in this GitHub Help article: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use

GitHub curl.sh

curl --header 'Authorization: token INSERTACCESSTOKENHERE' \
     --header 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.raw' \
     --remote-name \
     --location https://api.github.com/repos/owner/repo/contents/path

# Example...

TOKEN="INSERTACCESSTOKENHERE"
OWNER="BBC-News"
REPO="responsive-news"
PATH="scripts/build/tabloid.sh"
FILE="https://api.github.com/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/contents/$PATH"

curl --header 'Authorization: token $TOKEN' \
     --header 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.raw' \
     --remote-name \
     --location $FILE

options.md

• -H --header Extra header to use when getting a web page. You may specify any number of extra headers

• -O --remote-name Write output to a local file named like the remote file we get (only the file part of the remote file is used, the path is cut off)

• -L --location If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code), this option will make curl redo the request on the new place

curl --header 'Authorization: token INSERTACCESSTOKENHERE'
--header 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.raw'
--remote-name
--location https://api.github.com/repos/owner/repo/contents/path

Hey,

it code can work using the is oauth app token any idea please share me?

use the solution in the first part of the article it works without problem

I don't know if things changed since May, but neither token nor basic auth works for me. I'm getting

{
  "message": "Not Found",
  "documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3"
}

I thought this was no longer working, however what I did wrong is not adding the correct permissions to the token I was generating.

I marked

"repo

Full control of private repositories "

to get it working. There is maybe a less permissive alternative that still allows you to just read.

Fashionably Late, as always!

Originally, I was having trouble with the Token, itself.
However, after creating a New Token, with Everything Checked, my issues seemed to Clear-up.

From Command Line, the following worked, on my end.

curl -v -H "Authorization: token ghp_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v4.raw" -O -L "https://api.github.com/repos/<UserName>/<RepoName>/contents/<FolderPath>/<FileName>.ps1"

With that being said, I would imagine that something like the following, should do the trick.

curl --header 'Authorization: token ghp_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
--header 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.raw'
--location 'https://api.github.com/repos/<UserName>/<RepoName>/contents/<FolderPath>/<FileName>.ps1'

What are the minimum permissions for a Personal Access required to do this (specifically for Enterprise, if there's a difference).

Thx.