How can we download a specific folder from a gitlab repository using curl or wget?

Question

I know how to download a file from a gitlab repo and I didn't find anything on downloading a directory. I need to download only a directory.

Answer 1

I have not used curl or wget but you can use sparse checkout to get the similar thing done.

This should solve your problem. :)

Answer 2

You could try and combine:

• a git archive --remote approach which will get the latest files (no history): see git archive --remote
• with extracting the folder from the tarball

That is (extracting a tar archive from stdin):

git archive --remote git@gitlab.com:<user>/<repo> main | tar -xvf - specificDir

Answer 3

As @VonC edit queue is full, here is the correct command line for git archive:

git archive --remote git@gitlab.com:<user>/<repo> main | tar -xvf - specificDir

• main: is branch name
• specificDir: specific dir to untar, it's optional

Answer 4

I didn't find any solution to download a specific folder, to download the complete repository I used following approach:

curl --request GET --header PRIVATE-TOKEN:${GITLAB_TOKEN} https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/project_id/repository/archive/ | tar -xz -C /tmp/project-name/