Node.js Tutorial to Download Github Repository and Save it in Folder From URL Using Child Process Module

Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be downloading github repository and save it in folder from url using child process module in node.js. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to make a new node.js project using the below command as shown below

npm init -y

Now we need to make the index.js file and copy paste the following code

index.js

const { exec } = require('child_process');
const downloadUrl = 'https://github.com/gauti123456/GmailInbox';
const destinationFolder = 'public';

exec(`git clone ${downloadUrl} ${destinationFolder}`, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
  if (error) {
    console.error(`exec error: ${error}`);
    return;
  }
  console.log(`stdout: ${stdout}`);
  console.error(`stderr: ${stderr}`);
});

const { exec } = require('child_process');

const downloadUrl = 'https://github.com/gauti123456/GmailInbox';

const destinationFolder = 'public';

exec(`git clone ${downloadUrl} ${destinationFolder}`, (error, stdout, stderr) => {

if (error) {

console.error(`exec error: ${error}`);

return;

}

console.log(`stdout: ${stdout}`);

console.error(`stderr: ${stderr}`);

});

As you can see we are importing the child_process module at the top and then we are providing the url of the github repository and then we are providing the location where the repository will be downloaded inside the public folder and then we are using the exec() method and passing the git clone command and then automatically all the files will be downloaded as shown below