- Use
curl
to get the JSON response for the latest release - Use
grep
to find the line containing file URL - Use
cut
andtr
to extract the URL - Use
wget
to download it
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
| wget -qi -
"To link directly to a download of your latest release asset, link to /owner/name/releases/latest/download/asset-name.zip."
Source: https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/releasing-projects-on-github/linking-to-releases
This means you can just download the asset URL directly without the API?
So I'm not sure why this is still a thing? (Tho my guess is maybe this redirect was added in 2019 but this thread started in 2017.)