lrfg is a Latest Release Files Generator script for use in
conjunction with GitHub. It's a proof-of-concept implementation of a
solution to the problem of how to provide a link directly to a release
asset in a repository's latest release in the case where releases are
tagged with version numbers.
As implemented, lrfg uses GitHub's REST API where needed to do the
following:
- Download info about the latest release of a specified repository belonging to a specified user.
- Download the zip file from the latest release of the repository,
renaming it
<repo>-release.zipin the process, which removes the version number in the filename. - Unzip and modify the content of the zip file as desired.
- Zip and tar the modified content to create new release files.
- Upload the new release files to the latest release, resulting in
two new assets:
<repo>-release.zipand<repo>-release.tar.gz
See Notes in the comments of file lrfg regarding adjustments and
token required for use.
In use over several releases, each release will have release files
with the same filenames. As a consequence, the latest release zip file,
for example, may be downloaded directly using the link:
https://github.com/<user>/<repo>/releases/latest/download/<repo>-release.zip