Refined-github: Download specific folder?

[tom-sherman]

Sometimes you're browsing through a massive codebase and want to download a suite of files, sometime there a single example in the docs which you want to download. Is this possible?

[fregante]

I can't find the endpoint. This is what we currently have:

# single file
github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/raw/master/package.json
raw.githubusercontent.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/master/package.json

# whole archive
github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/archive/master.zip
codeload.github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/zip/master

But these don't work for folders:

github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/raw/master/media #  redirects to the regular view
raw.githubusercontent.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/master/media # 404
github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/archive/master/media.zip # downloads the whole repo
codeload.github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/zip/master/media # 404

[fregante]

Some extensions/tools download all the files separately and then zip them up:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gitzip-for-github/ffabmkklhbepgcgfonabamgnfafbdlkn

https://www.google.com.tw/search?q=download+folder+github

I wouldn't mind having a simple Download link added in the toolbar, linking a one-click online tool, if it exists.

[tom-sherman]

@bfred-it Download the whole thing temporarily, unzip and rezip the desired subdirectory?

[yakov116]

@tom-sherman imagine doing that to 500MB repo...

[fregante]

It turns out that GitZip exists as a standalone tool as I described it, however it requires an personal token and the interface is superfluous.

Example: https://kinolien.github.io/gitzip/?download=https://github.com/KinoLien/gitzip/tree/gh-pages

[tom-sherman]

I'm not entirely sure of the capabilities of web workers/service workers, but is it not possible to unzip/rezip using them along with IndexedDB for temporary storage?

[fregante]

I’m not sure of what your intent is. The tool I built for this fetches each file into a Blob object and then passes them to JSZip

[tom-sherman]

@bfred-it The intent being to download and extract the desired sub-directory in-extension without the need for an external tool or token

[fregante]

I just implemented it as an external tool because:

• it’s a relatively unused feature
• JSZip is bigger than the whole Refined GitHub extension
• downloading the whole repo for three files defeats the purpose, as already said by @yakov116, so the token is needed