- 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 -
The problem is that what to search for VARIES from repo to repo.
MOST repos seem to use
browser_download_url
but I have also have seen repos that does not have that entry, but usetarball_url
,zipball_url
instead.