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a command line tool for downloading repositories and gists

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github-dl is a lightweight command line tool for downloading repositories from `github.com <http://github.com>`__ and gists from `gist.github.com <http://gist.github.com>`__. github-dl has been tested on python 2.7.12 and python 3.5.2.

Installation

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pip install github-dl

Installation (Development)

Install the project by downloading the project as a zip file or cloning the repository. After downloading the source, run the following command to install in the root directory of the project…

pip install -e .

Usage

github-dl’s functionality is currently fairly limited, but the following functionality is supported

usage for both commands

command line argument/option

functionality

--help

list arguments/options for tool

--username

github username for credentials

--password

github password for credentials

--token

github token for credentials

--config

directory to a configuration file

usage specific for $ github-dl

command line argument/option

functionality

queries

query for filtering github repositories

destination

directory to download repositories to

examples:

Download all machine learning related notebooks matching a criteria: - $ github-dl 'machine learning language:jupyter-notebook size:<1000' github-notebooks --config=config.json

usage specific for $ gist-dl

command line argument/option

functionality

sources

list of github users accounts to download gists

destination

directory to download gists to

--extension

file extension to download ex: ipynb

examples:

Download all public jupyter notebooks: - $ gist-dl gist-notebooks --config=config.json --extension=ipynb

Download a specific user’s public jupyter notebooks: - $ gist-dl cameres gist-notebooks --config=config.json --extension=ipynb

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