How to download single files from GitHub

Question

Hi Team,

I have one repository in Github. I have multiple files on that repository. I want to download one particular file from that repository. How to do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

Git does not support downloading parts of the repository. You have to download all of it. But you should be able to do this with GitHub.

When you view a file it has a link to the "raw" version. The URL is constructed as shown below.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/user/repository/branch/filename