Downloading Latest Artifcat from Artifactory using Shell Script

Introduction#

Download latest Artifact from Artifactory repository using shell script.

STEPS TO DOWNLOAD THE LATEST ARTIFACT

1. Fetching the JSON response for last modified (latest) artifact

latestArtifactUriResponse=curl -u username:password --silent https://hostname.com/artifactory/api/storage/<repo_name>/<folder_name>/?lastModified | grep uri | awk '{ print $3 }' | sed s/\"//g | sed s/,//g

It will return a response in the following format:

{
  "uri" : "https://hostname.com/artifactory/api/storage/<repo_name>/<folder_name>/latest_artifact.tar.gz",
  "lastModified" : "2016-12-22T04:26:25.534-0500"
}

2. Fetching the direct URL to the latest artifact from the “latestArtifactUriResponse”

The latestArtifactUriReponse will return the response in the following format:

{
  "repo" : "repo_name",
  "path" : "/folder_name/latest_artifact.tar.gz",
  "created" : "2016-12-22T04:26:29.482-05:00",
  "createdBy" : "username",
  "lastModified" : "2016-12-22T04:26:25.534-05:00",
  "modifiedBy" : "username",
  "lastUpdated" : "2016-12-22T04:26:25.534-05:00",
  "downloadUri" : "https://hostname.com/artifactory/repo_name/folder_name/latest_artifact.tar.gz",
  "mimeType" : "application/octet-stream",
  "size" : "94310686",
  "checksums" : {
    "sha1" : "ocb778e566890b0f3d115b828ce8dd4e840",
    "md5" : "d050fb8108745973cf0d64e15667b340"
  },
  "originalChecksums" : {
  },
  "uri" : "https://hostanme.com/artifactory/api/storage/repo_name/folder_name/latest_artifact.tar.gz"
}

Here we have to fetch the value of downloadUri which is the direct URL to the latest artifcat and store it in downloadUrl variable:

downloadUrl=`curl -u username:password --silent $latestArtifactUrl | grep downloadUri | awk '{ print $3 }' | sed s/\"//g | sed s/,//g`

3. Downloading the latest artifact

curl -u username:password -O $downloadUrl

And you are done.