ghlast

A command line interface (CLI) used to inspect the last release published to a GitHub repository.

Why

One benefit this has over just bookmarking a URL to /owner/name/releases/latest/download/asset-name.zip is that this CLI will pick up pre-releases.

For instance at the time of writing this the Neovim project has a v0.8.0 prerelease build that they tag as nightly. If you use the static URL above you will instead get the stable v0.7.2 build instead.

I personally use it to get the latest and greatest of a binary...

#!/usr/bin/env bash

URL="$(ghlast neovim neovim --output assets | grep 'appimage$')"
curl "${URL}" --location --silent --output ~/bin/nvim && \
  chmod 755 ~/bin/nvim

Installation

Install using cargo:

cargo install ghlast

Pre-compiled Binaries

An alternative method is to download and run the pre-compiled binaries:

https://github.com/nickjer/ghlast/releases