Download a node's files that live on a linked add-on — .osf_download

The OSF's ?zip= endpoint archives osfstorage and nothing else: asking it for a github provider returns 404 (checked 2026-08-13). A project that links an external repository therefore has files no archive can deliver – 29 of pngda's 57, for example – so those are listed and fetched one at a time. This is the only route to them, and it is why mode = "all" is not purely archive-based.

Usage

.osf_download_addons(node, node_dir, pb = NULL)

Arguments

node: the OSF node ID
node_dir: the folder this node's files are written to
pb: a progress bar passed from another function

Value

a list with files and bytes retrieved