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@electron/get
Download Electron release artifacts
Usage
Simple: Downloading an Electron Binary ZIP
import { download } from '@electron/get';
// NB: Use this syntax within an async function, Node does not have support for
// top-level await as of Node 12.
const zipFilePath = await download('4.0.4');
Advanced: Downloading a macOS Electron Symbol File
import { downloadArtifact } from '@electron/get';
// NB: Use this syntax within an async function, Node does not have support for
// top-level await as of Node 12.
const zipFilePath = await downloadArtifact({
version: '4.0.4',
platform: 'darwin',
artifactName: 'electron',
artifactSuffix: 'symbols',
arch: 'x64',
});
Specifying a mirror
Anatomy of a download URL, in terms of mirrorOptions
:
https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v4.0.4/electron-v4.0.4-linux-x64.zip
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mirror / nightly_mirror | | customFilename
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customDir
Example:
import { download } from '@electron/get';
const zipFilePath = await download('4.0.4', {
mirrorOptions: {
mirror: 'https://mirror.example.com/electron/',
customDir: 'custom',
customFilename: 'unofficial-electron-linux.zip'
}
});
// Will download from https://mirror.example.com/electron/custom/unofficial-electron-linux.zip
const nightlyZipFilePath = await download('8.0.0-nightly.20190901', {
mirrorOptions: {
nightly_mirror: 'https://nightly.example.com/',
customDir: 'nightlies',
customFilename: 'nightly-linux.zip'
}
});
// Will download from https://nightly.example.com/nightlies/nightly-linux.zip
How It Works
This module downloads Electron to a known place on your system and caches it so that future requests for that asset can be returned instantly. The cache locations are:
- Linux:
$XDG_CACHE_HOME
or~/.cache/electron/
- MacOS:
~/Library/Caches/electron/
- Windows:
%LOCALAPPDATA%/electron/Cache
or~/AppData/Local/electron/Cache/
By default, the module uses got
as the
downloader. As a result, you can use the same options
via downloadOptions
.
Proxies
Downstream packages should utilize the initializeProxy
function to add HTTP(S) proxy support. If
the environment variable ELECTRON_GET_USE_PROXY
is set, it is called automatically. A different
proxy module is used, depending on the version of Node in use, and as such, there are slightly
different ways to set the proxy environment variables. For Node 10 and above,
global-agent
is used. Otherwise,
global-tunnel-ng
is used. Refer to the
appropriate linked module to determine how to configure proxy support.