How to Download the Latest Release Assets from GitHub with Python

Apr 21, 2025

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I recently needed to figure out how to write an updater script for a project I was working on. The application is released on an internal GitHub page with compressed files and an executable. I needed a way to check the latest release artifacts in GitHub and download them.

Let’s find out how all this works!

Getting Set Up

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