- 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 -
Just in case this could be useful for anyone, I'm using this oneliner from an alpine docker image, to pull the latest tarball from a github release and extract it in the current folder, skipping the original root folder:
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/ghostfolio/ghostfolio/releases/latest | sed -n 's/.*"tarball_url": "\(.*\)",.*/\1/p' | xargs -n1 wget -O - -q | tar -xz --strip-components=1