Automatically download latest github releases

This is a short script to automatically download the latest releases of certain tools (which are listed in repo_names.json).

Quickstart guide

Requirements

• python3+

Installation is as simple as pip install -U git+https://github.com/anirudhsundar/autodl.git

Just run python -m autodl.autodl inside the autodl directory to download the files into the current directory. It also extracts the files and adds the export commands for the PATH to the ~/.local_paths file. So, just add source ~/.local_paths to your bashrc/zshrc/cshrc

For a list of the different options try python autodl.py -h to the help.

How it works

The autodl.py script automatically fetches the tag of the latest release for the repos listed in repo_names.json and then downloads the linux-x86/64 version of the release.

repo_names.json documentation

There is a simple Markdown documentation

or if you prefer an interactive HTML version