hashicorp/go-getter

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Go library for downloading files or directories from a variety of sources (HTTP, Git, Mercurial, local paths, etc.) using a single URL string as input. It includes extensible detectors that turn shorthand strings into proper URLs and is used by Terraform and Nomad.

Use cases

• download files from a url in go
• fetch terraform modules from git
• download a directory from http or git with one string
• resolve shorthand urls like github.com/org/repo to git urls
• fetch remote binaries for my application
• download artifacts from multiple protocols without writing protocol-specific code

When to choose

• you need to download files or directories from heterogeneous sources in a Go application
• you want automatic detection of source types from user-supplied strings
• you are building tooling similar to Terraform or Nomad that fetches modules or binaries

When to avoid

• you only need simple HTTP downloads and a plain http client suffices
• you cannot safely handle user-supplied URLs given SSRF and path traversal risks
• you need a full package manager rather than a fetching library

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client file-system developer-tools developer-tools files go cross-platform cli downloading url-fetching git-download terraform-modules hashicorp automation

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