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

gistfile1.sh

curl -H 'Authorization: token INSERTACCESSTOKENHERE' -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.raw' -O -L https://api.github.com/repos/owner/repo/contents/path

I've created this simple gist in case someone needs to download a json file from a private repository and use it as a dictionary: https://gist.github.com/porthunt/b994154c054deeab7ab4073273aa75bc

I get:

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: application
{
  "message": "Not Found",
  "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/contents#get-repository-content",
  "status": "404"
}

I'm on windows, if that makes a difference.

My command is structured as follow:
curl -H 'Fine_Grain_Auth_Token_With_Readonly_permissions' -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v4.raw' -L https://api.github.com/repos/MYACCOUNT/MYREPO/contents/Bin/file.txt

I am able to access the file with a url like this (when signed in)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MYACCOUNT/MYREPO/main/Bin/file.txt
I have also tried having the /main in the url in the command with no change.