Shell - Get latest release from GitHub

get_latest_release.sh

get_latest_release() {
  curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/$1/releases/latest" | # Get latest release from GitHub api
    grep '"tag_name":' |                                            # Get tag line
    sed -E 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/'                                    # Pluck JSON value
}

# Usage
# $ get_latest_release "creationix/nvm"
# v0.31.4

git fetch --tags && git tag | tail -1

curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/$1/releases/latest" | jq -r .tag_name

curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/certbot/certbot/tags" | jq -r '.[0].name'

https://gist.github.com/lukechilds/a83e1d7127b78fef38c2914c4ececc3c