How to download a folder from github?

You can download a file/folder from github

Simply use: svn export <repo>/trunk/<folder>

Ex: svn export https://github.com/lodash/lodash/trunk/docs

Note: You may first list the contents of the folder in terminal using svn ls <repo>/trunk/folder

(yes, that's svn here. apparently in 2016 you still need svn to simply download some github files)

Use GitZip online tool. It allows to download a sub-directory of a github repository as a zip file. No git commands needed!

You can use Github Contents API to get an archive link and tar to retrieve a specified folder.

curl https://codeload.github.com/[owner]/[repo]/tar.gz/master | \ tar -xz --strip=2 [repo]-master/[folder_path]

For example,
if you want to download examples/with-apollo/ folder from zeit/next.js, you can type this:

curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/master | \
  tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-master/examples/with-apollo

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