Download a pdf file from private repository

[sureshrajamani]

Hi Team,
I am a devops engineer, i want to download a pdf file from private repository using powershell script or command line script which i can use in build pipeline. Kindly guide.
I have tried the following which is not working.

$token="My Access Token"       
$url="url of pdf file which i get from Raw button link in github repo"
$outfile="Test.pdf"            
Invoke-RestMethod $url  -Headers @{Authorization="Token $token"} -Outfile $outfile 

Thanks,
Suresh Rajamani

[norwd]

You'll want to download the file using the contents endpoint of the GitHub API: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/contents#get-repository-content

If the file exceeds the size limits or you need multiple files (or a subdirectory) I'd recommend just downloading the whole repo as a zip and extracting whatever files you need. Just for simplicity.

See: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/contents#download-a-repository-archive-zip

If this file changes frequently or is autogenerated, another option would be to use GitHub Action Artifacts, which have a much easier to use API at the cost of needed to maintain a workflow yaml file.

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