## How to download latest release from Github Sometimes you might want to download latest release of binary from Github repo using script. You can do this using API, but lets assume that on some enviroments you have only basic tools, and no [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) to extract values from JSon. 1. Git hub has built in redirect, i.e. `https://github.com/user/repo/releases/latest` which redirect to page dedicated to latest release 2. We can get redirect url with `curl`, i.e. `curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w "%{url_effective}" https://github.com/user/repo/releases/latest` will get us `https://github.com/user/repo/releases/tag/0.15.9` 3. Now we can extract version by using `basename`, i.e. `basename https://github.com/user/repo/releases/tag/0.15.9` will return `0.15.9` 4. Using this version we can construct download url. For example script that downloads and installs latest version of [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) ```sh #!/bin/bash export FZF_VERSION=$(curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w "%{url_effective}" https://github.com/junegunn/fzf-bin/releases/latest | xargs basename) curl -L https://github.com/junegunn/fzf-bin/releases/download/$FZF_VERSION/fzf-$FZF_VERSION-linux_amd64.tgz | tar -xz -C /tmp/ sudo mv /tmp/fzf-$FZF_VERSION-linux_amd64 /usr/bin/fzf ``` 🏷️Bash