https://github.com/nickjer/ghlast

Inspects the last release published to a GitHub repository
https://github.com/nickjer/ghlast

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Inspects the last release published to a GitHub repository

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nickjer/ghlast
• Owner: nickjer
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-08-05T20:04:34.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-30T14:37:13.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-04-06T13:06:46.703Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Rust
• Size: 441 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# ghlast

[![Latest Version](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/ghlast.svg)](https://crates.io/crates/ghlast)

[![Downloads](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/nickjer/ghlast/total.svg)](https://github.com/nickjer/ghlast/releases)

[![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/nickjer/ghlast.svg)](https://github.com/nickjer/ghlast)

[![Continuous Integration Status](https://github.com/nickjer/ghlast/workflows/Continuous%20integration/badge.svg)](https://github.com/nickjer/ghlast/actions)

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

GitHub repository.

![Screenshot of ghlast inspecting ripgrep](media/screenshot.png)

## 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.

![Screenshot of ghlast inspecting neovim](media/neovim-screenshot.png)

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

```bash

#!/usr/bin/env bash

URL="$(ghlast neovim neovim --output assets | grep 'appimage$')"

curl "${URL}" --location --silent --output ~/bin/nvim && \

  chmod 755 ~/bin/nvim

```

[Neovim]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim

## Installation

Install using [cargo]:

```shell

cargo install ghlast

```

[cargo]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/

## Pre-compiled Binaries

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

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