To download an individual file from a repository first navigate to the file you want to download on the GitHub website.

How to download text files from github. Download the compendium as a zip archive from this GitHub repository. A while ago one of my mods files got too big 150mb for a normal upload on Github so I had to install Git Large File Storage. In this example we are viewing the READMEmd file in a repository called ck-git.

Github is an amazing tool for storing and sharing files but its not always obvious how to download files. There are many solutions for automatically downloading files from GitHub. If someone works with Windows or directly wants to use MATLAB this program is useful.

If it is your first time opening a file in GitHub Desktop from your browser you might be asked to grant permission to your computer to open the file in GitHub. Then click the Raw download button that appears on the top right corner of the file explorer window on your page. At the bottom of the page type a short meaningful commit message that describes the change you made to the file.

2 Navigate to the file you want to download. Click on the Raw button given on the top right of the table. On GitHub navigate to the main page of the repository.

There are multiple ways of downloading code from GitHub. If you are on Windows use Motrix. In other words below is a Java API to get a file content from GitHub.

Browse to the file you want to download then click the Raw button. Install Github Plus and visit a repository on Github. Its neat friendly and it works.