Github folder downloader

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.3
• DOMDocument extension (depending on your system: sudo apt-get install + php5-dom, php7.0-xml or php7.1-xml)

Description:

• Downloads any project (sub)folder from github, to avoid downloading tests, demos, readme, etc, etc

• Includes full tree structure (and files) from the selected folder as starting point

• Download happens in current local directory by default

Usage example:

Example project is https://github.com/MaxCDN/php-maxcdn/

Let's say you want to download only the /src folder:

1. Copy the folder path from the address bar, without the https://github.com part and without the trailing slash:

   • Given the URL: https://github.com/MaxCDN/php-maxcdn/tree/master/src/
   • Extract: /MaxCDN/php-maxcdn/tree/master/src

2. Pass it to the script, along with the target folder:

   • Python: $ python updatelib.py "/MaxCDN/php-maxcdn/tree/master/src" /my/target/dir/
   • PHP: $ php updatelib.php "/MaxCDN/php-maxcdn/tree/master/src" /my/target/dir/

TODOs:

• Allow passing a target dir/folder