PowerShell function to download files from a GitHub repository

DownloadFilesFromRepo.ps1

function DownloadFilesFromRepo {
Param(
    [string]$Owner,
    [string]$Repository,
    [string]$Path,
    [string]$DestinationPath
    )

    $baseUri = "https://api.github.com/"
    $args = "repos/$Owner/$Repository/contents/$Path"
    $wr = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $($baseuri+$args)
    $objects = $wr.Content | ConvertFrom-Json
    $files = $objects | where {$_.type -eq "file"} | Select -exp download_url
    $directories = $objects | where {$_.type -eq "dir"}
    
    $directories | ForEach-Object { 
        DownloadFilesFromRepo -Owner $Owner -Repository $Repository -Path $_.path -DestinationPath $($DestinationPath+$_.name)
    }

    
    if (-not (Test-Path $DestinationPath)) {
        # Destination path does not exist, let's create it
        try {
            New-Item -Path $DestinationPath -ItemType Directory -ErrorAction Stop
        } catch {
            throw "Could not create path '$DestinationPath'!"
        }
    }

    foreach ($file in $files) {
        $fileDestination = Join-Path $DestinationPath (Split-Path $file -Leaf)
        try {
            Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $file -OutFile $fileDestination -ErrorAction Stop -Verbose
            "Grabbed '$($file)' to '$fileDestination'"
        } catch {
            throw "Unable to download '$($file.path)'"
        }
    }

}

I am new on GitHub. This article was very useful. Thank you very much.

Does this also work with fine grained access tokens? Trying this script out and changing bits here and there but whatever i do, i cant get it to work.

not bad