Cosimo Matteini is an independent developer whose public catalog currently centers on DRA, a lightweight command-line utility engineered to simplify the retrieval of release assets from GitHub repositories. Built for DevOps engineers, open-source maintainers, and automation-minded power users, DRA eliminates the manual steps of navigating browser pages or crafting custom cURL scripts by exposing a concise syntax that fetches binaries, archives, checksums, or any other uploaded artifact in seconds. Typical use cases include unattended CI pipelines that need the latest Linux build, nightly testing rigs that cycle through multiple project tags, and local shell workflows that keep utility binaries up-to-date without leaving the terminal. The tool respects GitHub’s rate limits, supports token authentication for private repos, and offers selective filtering by platform, extension, or version pattern, making it equally suited for mass-mirroring releases to an internal artifact store or for quickly grabbing a single portable executable before a demo. Because DRA is distributed as a self-contained native binary with no external dependencies, it slots cleanly into Windows Subsystem for Linux, PowerShell automation, or classic cmd batch files. Cosimo Matteini’s software, including DRA, is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always resolving to the latest upstream release and allowing batch installation alongside other command-line utilities.

DRA

A command line tool to download release assets from GitHub

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