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+import { Vault } from "obsidian";
+import * as path from "path";
+
+export default class GithubClient {
+  constructor(
+    private vault: Vault,
+    private token: string,
+  ) {}
+
+  headers() {
+    return {
+      Accept: "application/vnd.github+json",
+      Authorization: `Bearer ${this.token}`,
+      "X-GitHub-Api-Version": "2022-11-28",
+    };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Recursively downloads the repo content to the local vault.
+   * The repository directory structure is kept as is.
+   *
+   * @param owner Owner of the repo
+   * @param repo Name of the repo
+   * @param repoContentDir Directory in the repo to download relative to the root of the repo
+   * @param branch Branch to download from
+   * @param localContentDir Local directory to download to
+   */
+  async downloadRepoContent(
+    owner: string,
+    repo: string,
+    repoContentDir: string,
+    branch: string,
+    localContentDir: string,
+  ) {
+    const res = await fetch(
+      `https://api.github.com/repos/${owner}/${repo}/contents/${repoContentDir}?${branch}`,
+      {
+        headers: this.headers(),
+      },
+    );
+
+    const content = await res.json();
+    const directories = content.filter((file: any) => file.type === "dir");
+    // As specified in the Github docs also submodules are specified as "file".
+    // For the time being we're going to let this slide cause I don't really
+    // want to handle this right now. I'll figure out a way to do this later. Maybe.
+    // More info in the official docs:
+    // https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/contents?apiVersion=2022-11-28#get-repository-content
+    const files = content.filter((file: any) => file.type === "file");
+
+    await Promise.all(
+      directories.map((dir: any) =>
+        this.downloadRepoContent(
+          owner,
+          repo,
+          dir.path,
+          branch,
+          path.join(localContentDir, dir.name),
+        ),
+      ),
+    );
+
+    await Promise.all(
+      files.map(async (file: any) => {
+        const url = file.download_url;
+        const destinationFile = file.path.replace(
+          repoContentDir,
+          localContentDir,
+        );
+        await this.downloadFile(url, destinationFile);
+      }),
+    );
+  }
+
+  async downloadFile(url: string, destinationFile: string) {
+    // We're not setting auth headers here as we're not calling the Github API
+    // directly but downloading the raw file, cause there are some size limitation
+    // with the official API.
+    // Using the headers above is not feasible as it triggers CORS preflight
+    // and GH doesn't allow that for raw content endpoints. Thus breaking everything.
+    // So this doesn't work with a private repo, will figure it out later.
+    const res = await fetch(url);
+    const buffer = await res.arrayBuffer();
+    const destinationPath = path.dirname(destinationFile);
+    if (!this.vault.getFolderByPath(destinationPath)) {
+      this.vault.createFolder(destinationPath);
+    }
+    // This doesn't overwrite existing files
+    this.vault.createBinary(destinationFile, buffer);
+  }
+}