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Download or replace project resources

You can do this in quite a few ways, these are probably the easiest ones:

  • use the ZIP resource archive downloader step for downloading and extracting a ZIP file
  • use the File Downloader step to download a single file
  • use a Script Step

Store the resources file on bitrise.io

You can store the resources file on bitrise.io. In the Workflow Editor select the "Code signing & Files" section, and upload the archive file in the "Generic File Storage" section. Bitrise will automatically generate a (time limited, expiring) download URL for the files you upload here, and will expose the download URL as an Environment Variable.

Using the ZIP resource archive downloader step⚓

If you have your resources on your server in a zip archive, all you have to do is to add the ZIP resource archive downloader Step to your Workflow, specify the URL of the ZIP and the destination where the zip's content should be uncompressed.

The source code of your app will be (by default) downloaded into the folder defined in the $BITRISE_SOURCE_DIR environment variable.

If you want to place the content of your ZIP archive into a folder called myresource inside your app's source code directory, you can define the extract target folder (of the ZIP resource archive downloader step) as ${BITRISE_SOURCE_DIR}/myresource, or ./myresource (as the default working directory is the source code directory).

Single file - using the File Downloader step⚓

If you only want to download a single file, you can of course ZIP it up and use the ZIP resource archive downloader step as described in the previous section, but there's also a step for single file downloads.

The File Downloader step can be used for this use case. Works very similarly as the ZIP resource archive downloader step, except it does not require a ZIP file, it simply downloads the specified file to the location you set.

...
- file-downloader:
    inputs:
    - source: $BITRISEIO_my_file_id_URL
    - destination: "$BITRISE_SOURCE_DIR/path/to/store/the/file"
...

The "manual" way⚓

If you want to control the whole download process, you can use the Script step and write your own download code, something like this:

#!/bin/bash
set -ex
# Download your resource
curl -fo "download/path" "https://url/of/your/resource"
# Uncompress it
unzip -u "download/path" -d "uncompress/target/path"

If you'd need an additional tool to download or uncompress the resources file, please see the Install Any Additional Tool guide.