GHEX

Github Extractor CLI

List github repositories or download individual files or whole repos conveniently. Faster than clone depth=1 for an entire repo and much faster if you just need a single file

See an Asciinema video of usage (including with fzf) below.

Quickstart CLI

Install node then:

npx ghex -h

Or:

npm install -g ghex

Usage

ghex [options] <paths...>

Arguments

paths

One or more paths to download. Can be a whole repo, or a folder or a file within it. Supports globs but the path should be quoted. To exclude use a negative glob ("!" at the beginning). Can mix paths from different repos (conflicts resolved left to right). A trailing slash means a whole folder. Conflicting files are skipped by default.

Options

-l, --list

List files. Useful as a dry run and with fzf. Does not download. Will show show conflicts for the current working directory or -d / --dest.

-p, --prefix

Append the owner/repo prefix to the path in list output. This is useful for feeding back into ghex.

-c, --conflicts-only

Only show conflicts when listing.

-d, --dest (folder)

Destination folder. Defaults to the current directory.

-i, --case-insensitive

Ignores case when checking for conflicts. Default is case-sensitive--i.e. casing matters.

-f, --force

Overwrite all existing conflicting files. Default false.

-e, --echo-paths

After writing, outputs the path of each file plus a new line. Useful for piping to other commands. Also sets -quiet & --no-color.

-s, --strip (number)

Strip the first n directories from paths. If a path doesn't have enough directories to strip, it's skipped.

-q, --quiet

No success or error messages.

--no-prefix

Remove the owner/repo prefix from the path in list output

--no-colors

Strip ansi escape characters used to color output. ghex respects the NO_COLOR env var if set also.

Downloading Examples:

Entire repo:

npx ghex facebook/react

Specific folder:

npx ghex "facebook/react/packages/*"

Specify destination:

npx ghex -d local/dest facebook/react

Specific files

npx ghex facebook/react/.circleci/config.yml  facebook/react/.github/stale.yml

Different repos mixed together"

npx ghex facebook/react  micromatch/picomatch

Listing Examples:

Only conflicts

npx ghex -lc -d local/dest  facebook/react

Specific folder

npx ghex -l "facebook/react/.circleci/*"