How to clone GitHub Repository (2024 updated)

Key Takeaways

hey guys welcome back in this video you will learn how to clone a GitHub repository using the command line on Windows Mac or Linux I will also show you how to Simply download the repository as a zip file if you don't want to use the command line all of this can be done for public repository or your private repository or someone else's private repository that you are a collaborator on enjoy for the purpose of this tutorial I'm going to show you how to clone a public repository so I'm going to clone a repository for a project called crew AI by the amazing developer Jean Moda so I just went to his GitHub profile and I'm going to click on this repository crew Ai and this is what we're going to clone but again you can clone your own personal um repository or a repository of a friend or collaborator that you're working with in exactly the same way just log into your GitHub account find the repositor of interest and follow these steps so first I'm going to show you that I created a folder so I'm going to go to hit his crei repository and I'm going to click on the green button that says code there's a couple of ways you can do this one way is the GitHub CLI or command line interface we're not going to do this today the easiest way to do it is just to click on download zip so it allows you to download the zip file into this folder that you just created let's look it's now here we can now unpack it and we'll have the code but does not what we want to do so let's move it to trash we want to clone the repository on the command line because we're developers so we're going to click again on the green button that says code and we're going to use the option https there's also the option for your private or business repositories to clone with SSH which is a little bit more secure but for public repositories or personal projects this is the easiest and simplest way to do it so we're going to just copy the URL here so there's a little button copy your out the clipboard we're going to copy it and we're going to open our terminal if you're on Linux like me you can open bash or if you're on Mac you open the terminal which is also going to be bash or if you're on Windows you can open a bash emulator like git bash or any other command line interface that you have um will work the same way and what we're going to do is navigate to the folder of Interest so in this case the folder called test project I'm going to show you where I am PWD shows you I'm in the test project folder LS will show you that the folder is empty because we just emptied it and now what we're going to do is type git clone and then paste the URL we just copy it so git is the program and clone is the sub command for git that will clone this repository and then we'll tell it what to clone we'll type enter and as you saw this was very very quick we just copied all the files in this repository to our local computer I'll show you that it's now there I did LS to show you there's a new crei and in crei there's now all the files of this public repository that we can see here and I'm just going to show you also in the GUI that the folder that was previously empty now has the folder called creai which contains all the files of the public repository so we're now done congrats on cloning your first GitHub repository so that was it guys thanks for watching hopefully this was helpful if you like this content take a look around on my channel maybe you'll find some nice Python tutorial or other video that is useful for you if not leave a like or a comment and see you next time