Jsdelivr: Support to download GitHub release assets

[LinuxSuRen]

It's very very slow for some areas, for example: the users from China. So, I was wondering if it's possible to allow users download files from GitHub releases by jsdelivr.

[MartinKolarik]

If you mean the additionally uploaded release assets that isn't possible right now. But anything that's stored in the repo is available.

[LinuxSuRen]

Yes, we can download the release assets directly. It just very slow for us.

[MartinKolarik]

You can always put them to the repo, to a separate branch. E.g., some projects have a release branch where they commit all release files and then those can be accessed via the CDN.

[LinuxSuRen]

Yes, that's a good solution for now. Actually I've done that in my repo. But generally, we need to download from many other different repos. Anyway, this is just a suggestion.

[MartinKolarik]

I'll keep this open as a possible enhancement but can't say yet if or when it'll be added (likely not in the near future).

[LinuxSuRen]

Thanks for taking my suggestion. It will be very convenience if jsdelivr could support GitHub release asset. I totally understand that adding such a feature might be too fast.
Further more, I resolved my problems by adding a Nexus raw proxy repo. Just in case someone else might need a similar solution, I put the screenshot of the Nexus setting below:

After done those settings, you can download it by the following command:

wget http://your-nexus/github-proxy/jenkins-zh/jenkins-cli/releases/download/v0.0.27/jcli-darwin-386.tar.gz

[hronro]

Vote for this.

Many projects ships compiled/minified version in the GitHub release assets instead of in the repo, so CDN for release assets would be very helpful.

For me I can store assets in the repo, but it's not possible to force the whole community to to that.

[RodrigoDornelles]

It would be very useful also for projects written in several languages that are compiled for webassembly and published in releases.

[zh99998]

+1 for this request.