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I want to make download link for latest version of my application from GitHub tags. But I can not use GitHub releases, only just tags to make the new version. So I want an universal link to the latest tag zipball. I already did that with jQuery and GitHub API, but I also need a non JS fallback. Is there any option how to do it?

Edit: I've found some possibilities, but none of them is accurate for my problem:

Edit 2: Is there also any option to download latest release directly? It could help to find out the same for tag.

aleskva
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I couldn't find out a way to easily do want you want, however I ended up making sure there is a tag for latest so then you link such as

https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:repo/zipball/latest

It sounds like you have control of tags so that should do the trick for now for the static link fallback.

Brad Mccormack
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  • https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/releases/tag/r66-oriental-skylark works for this particular repo and redirects to https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/releases/tag/v1.4.11 – Brad Mccormack Jun 19 '15 at 02:53
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    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24827437/github-latest-release-button-capability You need attached artifacts for that button to show and the latest link to work correctly. – Brad Mccormack Jun 19 '15 at 02:57
  • If I understand you correctly, I could add a tag called latest to the newest version tag. Then it should work. That sounds as a really good idea. I'll try to do it that way. Unfortunately I haven't any artifacts I could attach. – aleskva Jun 19 '15 at 08:56