A fish script to download gitignore files from the GitHub template repo at https://github.com/github/gitignore

gitignore

#!/usr/bin/env fish

set -l repo_raw "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/main"
set -l repo_api "https://api.github.com/repos/github/gitignore/contents"

# Fetch list of gitignore files (recursively flattened)
set -l files (
    curl -s $repo_api | \
    jq -r '
      .[] |
      if .type == "file" and (.name | endswith(".gitignore"))
      then .path
      else empty
      end
    '
)

# Abort if nothing found
test (count $files) -eq 0; and exit 1

# Select via fzf
set -l selected (
    printf "%s\n" $files | fzf --prompt="gitignore> "
)

test -z "$selected"; and exit 0

# Download to current directory
set -l filename (basename $selected)
curl -sSL "$repo_raw/$selected" -o "./.gitignore"

echo "Downloaded $filename"