Possibility to get GitHub release notes as plain text URL?

Question

I need to extract content from a project's GitHub release notes, in automated fashion. The surrounding HTML content of the website is not needed and tends to complicate parsing.

Does GitHub provide a plain text URL for the release notes (similar to the raw view for files), or do I have to work with the HTML anyway?

You could use the REST API: docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/rest/releases/… — knittl
– knittl, Commented Aug 28, 2023 at 21:29

mara004 · Accepted Answer · 2023-08-29 16:00:38Z

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Call

# substitute placeholders accordingly ($OWNER $REPO $TAG)
curl -L "https://api.github.com/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/releases/tags/$TAG"

and extract the name and body keys from the returned JSON.

edited Aug 29, 2023 at 16:00

answered Aug 28, 2023 at 21:51

mara004

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mara004 Over a year ago

If calling this from a programming language one can of course use a native web library rather than curl.

mara004 Over a year ago

Doc link: docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/…

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