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How do I download a tarball from GitHub using cURL?

Asked 2011-04-21T15:31:36.540
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I am trying to download a tarball from GitHub using cURL, but it does not seem to be redirecting:

$ curl --insecure https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v0.24-beta2
<html><body>You are being <a href="https://nodeload.github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v0.24-beta2">redirected</a>.</body></html>

Note: wget works for me:

$ wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v0.24-beta2

However I want to use cURL because ultimately I want to untar it inline with something like:

$ curl --insecure https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v0.24-beta2 | tar zx

I found that the URL after redirecting turned out to be https://download.github.com/pinard-Pymacs-v0.24-beta1-0-gcebc80b.tar.gz, but I would like cURL to be smart enough to figure this out.

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You can also use wget to »untar it inline«. Simply specify stdout as the output file (-O -):

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v0.24-beta2 -O - | tar xz
answered 2011-04-21T15:35:56.043

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