ghdl

A config file based python script to download the latest release assets from github.

Installation

Just clone the repository or download the .py file.

Usage

python3 ghdl.py -c config.json

You can adjust the logging level with the -l parameter.

python3 ghdl.py -c config.json -l info

Use the -h parameter to see detailed usage.

Configuration

ghdl uses json as the configuration format, and there is an example configuration file named config.json in the repository.

The explanation of each field in the configuration is as follows:

• overwrite: Whether to overwrite the file if it already exists. Default: true
• clear_matches: Whether to delete files in the download directory that match the filters before downloading. Default: false
• dir: Download directory. Default: "", which means the current working directory
• token: Global GitHub token. Default: "", which means that the token will not be used
• concurrency: Number of concurrency. Setting it to 0 instead of 1 to disable concurrency. Default: 5
• repos: List of repository configurations. This field is required, but can be empty
• owner: Owner of the repository. This field is required
• repo: Repository name. This field is required
• token in repos: Repository specified token. If it is empty then global token will be used. Default: ""
• filters: List of filters. Only matched files will be downloaded. Each filter is a regular expression that requires a full match of the filename, "" means nothing matches. An empty list means all matches. Default: []