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How to Download a GitHub Repository as a ZIP File in Python

Download any public GitHub repository as a ZIP file using the GitHub API and Python's requests and zipfile modules.

github download zip
Python 
import requests
import zipfile
import io
import os

def download_github_repo_as_zip(repo_url, output_path='.'):
    """
    Download a GitHub repository as a ZIP file.
    
    Args:
        repo_url (str): Full GitHub repository URL (e.g., 'https://github.com/username/repo')
        output_path (str): Directory to sa…
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