How do I download a Maven artifact at the command line without using dependency:get or maven-download-plugin?

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Chris Beach picture Chris Beach · Jun 29, 2012 · Viewed 40.6k times · Source

I'd like to download an artifact and its dependencies at the command line. I.e.

mvn [some plugin]:[goal] -DartifactId=[artifactId] -DgroupId=[groupId] -Dversion=[version]

I've tried mvn dependency:get but this seems to require a list of remote repositories. I want mvn to use what's already specified in settings.xml

I've also tried the maven-download-plugin but this doesn't seem to work properly (it tried downloading xerces-impl as a transitive dependency of ant and failed to resolve it. Neither xerces-impl nor ant are dependencies of my artifact).

Your help would be appreciated.

Answer

Gili picture Gili · Sep 11, 2013

The copy goal is more appropriate here and it lets you specify an output directory as well (which is deprecated in the get goal):

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:copy -Dartifact=groupId:artifactId:version[:packaging][:classifier] -DoutputDirectory=[target] -Dmdep.useBaseVersion=true

mdep.useBaseVersion=true will remove timestamps from snapshot builds.

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