How to download a folder from github?

I wished to download the mysite folder from this link: https://github.com/username/repository/master/

You can download a file/folder from github

Simply use: svn export <repo>/trunk/<folder>

Ex: svn export https://github.com/lodash/lodash/trunk/docs

Note: You may first list the contents of the folder in terminal using svn ls <repo>/trunk/folder

(yes, that's svn here. apparently in 2016 you still need svn to simply download some github files)

You can use Github Contents API to get an archive link and tar to retrieve a specified folder.

curl https://codeload.github.com/[owner]/[repo]/tar.gz/master | \ tar -xz --strip=2 [repo]-master/[folder_path]

For example,
if you want to download examples/with-apollo/ folder from zeit/next.js, you can type this:

curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/master | \
  tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-master/examples/with-apollo

Use GitZip online tool. It allows to download a sub-directory of a github repository as a zip file. No git commands needed!

There is a button Download ZIP. If you want to do a sparse checkout there are many solutions on the site. For example here.

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