How to simply download a JAR using Maven?

Question

How do I download JAR during a build in Maven script?

Answer 1

Maven does not work like that. Here's the closest you'll get to my knowledge:

mvn dependency:get -DremoteRepositories=http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ \
                   -DgroupId=junit -DartifactId=junit -Dversion=4.8.2 \
                   -Dtransitive=false

Note that all parameters except transitive are required.
Also note that Maven will download the jar to your local repository, and there's no sensible way (that I know of) to copy it to a local directory.

Reference:

• dependency:get

Answer 2

Or since 3.1, simply as mvn dependency:get -Dartifact=org.springframework:spring-instrument:3.2.3.RELEASE

Answer 3

Note: This answer is for downloading the jars directly from maven without any scripts [That is how Google directed me here]

Assuming mvn dependency is like this:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.zaxxer</groupId>
    <artifactId>HikariCP</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.7</version>
</dependency>

Goto http://search.maven.org and search for g:"com.zaxxer" AND a:"HikariCP" AND v:"2.4.7" (simply searching for HikariCP also works. You may need to select the appropriate GroupId and Version from the results)

In the Search Results -> Download column, you should see jar javadoc.jar sources.jar available for direct download

Answer 4

You can use:

mvn dependency:copy -Dartifact=<group>:<artifact-name>:<version> -DoutputDirectory=/tmp/my_custom_dir

(Replace <values> with the ones of your case)

That's the full documentation of the goal: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/copy-mojo.html

Note: the other "dependecy:get" way of doing this has been deprecated.

Answer 5

This is what I do (2022 answer), go to https://mvnrepository.com/, search for your .jar and click on here:

Answer 6

You can download Jar package to specific directory.

mvn dependency:get -Dartifact=org.riversun:random-forest-codegen:1.0.0 -Ddest=./

Answer 7

See How to use Maven pom to download jar files only. This worked really nicely for me.

My use case was that I wanted to download some of the dependency jars to deploy to a QA server, and was doing it manually (outside of the Maven build). I'm not sure exactly what your use case is.

Answer 8

Normally you don't use Maven for "just downloading", but for your build process. So normally, you do the following steps:

1. Define a new project by defining the archetype of your project and some needed properties.
2. Define as a dependency the library you want to use.
3. Run Maven with mvn compile

As a side effect, you will have downloaded the library to your local Maven repository. There are a lot of plugins to do something with dependencies, so have e.g. a look at the Maven Dependency plugin.

Answer 9

If you just want to download a JAR once from a maven mirror I suggest you could just do this manually:

For Maven 1:
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven/

For Maven 2:
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/

These are the repositories (a mirror anyway) that maven will get its JARs from - you can easily access them in the webbrowser of your choice and download the JARs etc. Just browse through the hierarchy (it looks like any Java packag hierarchy) until you find the artefact, then pick the right version and you're good.

For example version 3.6.6.Final of hibernate-core from group org.hibernate you'd find here:

http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/org/hibernate/hibernate-core/3.6.6.Final/

Answer 10

You can setup a pom.xml to define your dependencies (the jars you want to copy). Then use the dependency:copy-dependencies goal to copy the jars to the desired location.

Answer 11

It's possible to download a JAR from a Gitlab Maven private repository. The URL is appearing when running some Maven command so it's a bit hacky but it's working for me.

Like this:

wget --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: ${GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN}" "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/${GITLAB_PROJECT_ID}/packages/maven/${MAVEN_PACKAGE_NAME}/${MAVEN_VERSION}/${JAR_FILE}"

Where,

• GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN is a Gitlab Token with right "api" (atm the others are not enough)
  • GITLAB_PROJECT_ID e.g. 1462237
  • MAVEN_PACKAGE_NAME e.g. com/bar/foo
  • MAVEN_VERSION e.g. 0.0.1
  • JAR_FILE e.g. foo-0.0.1.jar

Answer 12

All the jars are available directly in the maven central repository. You don't have to use "maven" if all you want is the jar.

https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/

If the pom dependency is

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
    <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
    <version>5.2.2</version>
</dependency>

You can download it from the corresponding directory structure by replacing the dots with forward slashses on the group id, artifact id, and version. I would navigate to the final folder to get the exact link of the jar.

https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/poi/poi/5.2.2/poi-5.2.2.jar

Answer 13

Updated 2022 answer for command line - building on Ivan Carcamo's answer:

wget [the link that Ivan Carcamo points to in his screenshot]

Edit: This may download the thin jar for some repositories, so you may need to find a different link for the fat jar

Answer 14

Use the below code snip

result = subprocess.check_output('mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:get \
                                     -DgroupId=%s \
                                     -DartifactId=%s \
                                     -Dversion=%s \
                                     -Dtransitive=false \
                                     -DremoteRepositories={repos_string} \
                                     -Dpackaging=jar \
                                     -DoutputDirectory=%s' % (group_id,
                                                              artifact_id,
                                                              version_name,
                                                              des_path), shell=True)
    logger.info("success download jar: %s" % each_version)
except Exception as e:
    logger.error("Error in download jar : %s" % str(e))

Answer 15

As of December 12, 2022 the easiest way to download all dependencies including the jar file itself is to go to this link:

https://jar-download.com/online-maven-download-tool.php

And simply paste the Maven XML to the page and click download. God bless the person who built jar-download.com. :-)

Answer 16

This works for me, but it downloads only the latest version:

#! /bin/bash
set -eu
if [[ -z ${1:-} || -z ${2:-} ]]; then
  printf 'Usage: %s group artifact\n' "$(basename "$0")" >&2
  exit 1
fi
g="$1"
a="$2"
url='https://search.maven.org'
v="$(curl -s "$url/solrsearch/select?q=g:$g+AND+a:$a&core=gav&rows=20&wt=json" |
          jq -r '.response.docs[0].v')"
curl -s -L -o "$a-$v.jar" "$url/remotecontent?filepath=${g//.//}/$a/$v/$a-$v.jar"

You need bash, curl and jq.

Example:

./maven-download net.sf.saxon Saxon-HE

Downloads Saxon-HE-11.4.jar today (2022-12-23).