{"id":78,"date":"2015-03-08T18:17:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T18:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gkokot.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2022-02-03T18:07:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T18:07:20","slug":"how-to-download-source-in-zip-format-from-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gkokot.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"How to download source in ZIP format from GitHub?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when the repository owner has not prepared a zip file, and you just want a download to use yourself?<br \/>\nThere is an answer and you don&#8217;t need to go though that horrid process to download software, install and register keys and whatnot on GitHub, etc.!<\/p>\n<p>To simply download a repository as a zip file: add the extra path &#8216;\/zipball\/master\/&#8217; to the end of the repository URL and voila, it gives you a zip file of the whole lot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ex: https:\/\/github.com\/liveservices\/LiveSDK-for-Windows<\/p>\n<p>=&gt; https:\/\/github.com\/liveservices\/LiveSDK-for-Windows\/zipball\/master<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Solution based on<a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/a\/7048489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/a\/7048489<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when the repository owner has not prepared a zip file, and you just<a class=\"readmore btn btn-info\" href=\"https:\/\/gkokot.com\/?p=78\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkokot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkokot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkokot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkokot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkokot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gkokot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/gkokot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkokot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkokot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkokot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkokot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}