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by DANK_YACHT 1486 days ago
Not related to your broader point, but you can download source from a release via https://github.com/<org>/<repo>/archive/refs/tags/<tag>.zip
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This works too: https://github.com/<org>/<repo>/archive/HEAD.zip

Gives a HEAD.zip that contains a "<repo>-<sha1>/" folder and the latest source.