One Liner to Download the Latest Release from Github Repo

One Liner to Download the Latest Release from Github Repo.md

• Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
• Use grep to find the line containing file URL
• Use cut and tr 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 curl and grep:

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/caddyserver/xcaddy/releases/latest | grep '"browser_download_url":' | grep 'amd64.deb' | grep -vE '(\.pem|\.sig)' | grep -o 'https://[^"]*'

https://github.com/caddyserver/xcaddy/releases/download/v0.4.2/xcaddy_0.4.2_linux_amd64.deb

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/aptly-dev/aptly/releases/latest | grep '"browser_download_url":' | grep 'amd64.deb' | grep -o 'https://[^"]*'

https://github.com/aptly-dev/aptly/releases/download/v1.5.0/aptly_1.5.0_amd64.deb

My apologies if it borrows from other answers.

dra is making huge strides in simplifying the download process.

@NiceGuyIT thanks for bringing it up.