- 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 -
@alerque you've right, the only problem is: different platforms - different methods.
Some people using bash, some wget, other nodejs or even php... I went thru all of them. It did a lot of pain changing regular expressions every time developer change naming pattern. That's how i came to idea of making that website.