Download Atom editor without an invite

https://gist.github.com/bevenky/9304566

by bevenky • 12 years ago

82 114 12 years ago

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xdissent• 12 years ago

I lol'd.

tinco2• 12 years ago

So there's only one comment that gives the impression that there's some kind of troll going on. Just to let you know: It actually works, nothing fishy just someone posting the direct link to the app that's exposed via their update Api.

There's no activation or anything, it will just take you straight into the app.

Blahah4• 12 years ago

confirmed, works for me too

kartikkumar• 12 years ago

Yep working well!

ColdHawaiian• 12 years ago

Is it actually ok to download the app without an invite though?

tinco2• 12 years ago

If you live in The Netherlands it is. You need a license to read it into memory or even modify that memory (by executing it) though ;)

oneeyedpigeon9• 12 years ago

Legally, almost certainly. Morally, almost certainly not.

fnordfnordfnord• 12 years ago

I would assume that github knows how to create a private github repository and therefore they wouldn't mind you cloning / forking it.

Watabou3• 12 years ago

Hah, that was easy. Thanks.

It indeed works just fine. It looks very much like Sublime text as people have been saying. There's even a command palate.

One thing I noticed though straight off, it just doesn't feel as smooth as a native app. Is that just me?

EDIT: The gist was just removed. Glad I got it before it went down.

EDIT 2: The curl command still seems to be working:

    curl -L https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download -A "Atom/0.1 CFNetwork/1.5" > Atom.zip

k-mcgrady2• 12 years ago

It feels a little bit sluggish to me but not enough to effect my productivity. Opening folders/files seems to take a little longer than Sublime.

a9entroy• 12 years ago

How can I download it for Windows ?

Watabou3• 12 years ago

OS X only for now.

josteink• 12 years ago

Wtf. Why would one start with the software-patent and lawsuit-based platform?

Does nobody at github have any sense of ethics? Github was built on open source software and Linux. Why not give something back? Why support those who spend national budgets on anti open-source lawsuits?

Yetanfou2• 12 years ago

It is rather disappointing that github heads down the Mac OS path while they base their company around a concept which is rather strange to most things Apple - openness and sharing. Writing for Mac OS first also makes it harder to port to other platforms as it is a rather idiosyncratic platform.

If they insist on pushing Mac OS AND want to be seen as a good free software citizen they might want to consider putting some effort in the GNUstep project. Once GNUstep is up to par they should be able to build for that on Linux and Windows with minimal porting efforts.

Still, I'm disappointed in the lack of vision many of these so-called 'open source' companies exhibit. Don't they realise that by pushing these closed, proprietary platforms they undermine the very base of their own existence? The software and community which github depends on was not the result of the generous sponsorship from Microsoft and Apple after all...

atmosx• 12 years ago

Why would you?

oneeyedpigeon9• 12 years ago

Err... because you want to try out an experimental text editor that's rumoured to be quite nice and you run Windows? seriously, what on earth is the point of your post? Are you trying to make a snarky comment about something? if so, at least flesh it out with some actual humour or context.

oneeyedpigeon9• 12 years ago

FYI:

At the moment Atom only runs on OS X (10.8 or later). Windows and Linux releases are on the roadmap.

From atom.io/faq

W0lf• 12 years ago

And boom. The script is gone :)

hdragomir• 12 years ago

The gist has been taken down.

lolo_• 12 years ago

The gist seems to be down, anybody take a copy of the contents?

Watabou3• 12 years ago

This was the curl command:

curl -L https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download -A "Atom/0.1 CFNetwork/1.5" > Atom.zip

ing33k• 12 years ago

I don't have a mac, but still downloaded it , and just refreshed gist, its gone . Github staff really active on HN ?

oneeyedpigeon9• 12 years ago

maybe not in the sense that the GitHub owners are constantly refreshing the GitHub home page, but they could certainly have notifications set up for posts that mention GitHub. plus, anything as relevant as this is, is going to reach them pretty quickly by many different routes.

gyardley2• 12 years ago

cd ~

curl -L https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download -A "Atom/0.1 CFNetwork/1.5" > Atom.zip

open Atom.zip

mv Atom.app /Applications/

rm -rf Atom.zip

kayoone2• 12 years ago

Come on... people here should be able to handle a zip file...

oneeyedpigeon9• 12 years ago

also, "rm -rf Atom.zip" - WTF? Why not throw a "sudo" in there for good measure...

maccard• 12 years ago

Works, but the gist is now gone. However, it looks so similar to sublime, I can't believe it. In case anyone is looking for it: the command is curl -L https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download -A "Atom/0.1 CFNetwork/1.5" > Atom.zip

rmc• 12 years ago

that command doesn't work anymore

aram2• 12 years ago

Yup, results in

    {"message":"Not Found"}

huseyinkeles• 12 years ago

gist is gone

curl -L https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download -A "Atom/0.1 CFNetwork/1.5" > Atom.zip

nicolasd• 12 years ago

curl -L https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download -A "Atom/0.1 CFNetwork/1.5" > Atom.zip

onetimeonly• 12 years ago

http://pastebin.com/dFSHy3b1

Cless2• 12 years ago

Working link: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=NJngNDk8

RivieraKid2• 12 years ago

Not anymore.

dovel2• 12 years ago

What makes this so slow? Is it because it is written in JS?

dsego2• 12 years ago

Nope, JS is fast enough. But it uses html for rendering the UI and syntax highlighting. Here is one line of C code "if (inLen < 1) {" in atom markup:

  <div class="line"><span class="source c">
  <span class="meta function c"><span class="meta block c">
  <span class="leading-whitespace indent-guide">  
  </span><span class="keyword control c">if</span>
  <span class="meta initialization c"> 
  <span class="punctuation definition parameters c">(</span>
  </span>inLen &lt; <span class="constant numeric c">1</span>)
  <span class="meta block c">
  <span class="punctuation section block begin c">{</span>
  </span></span></span></span></div>

dovel2• 12 years ago

Thanks for the reply. So, is there no way of speeding it up without moving away from HTML?

Is the html generated from JS? or is it static? would that make it faster? (newb questions)

Thanks!

danielhunt5• 12 years ago

Does anyone feel it's very, very wrong of Github to take down that gist?

oneeyedpigeon9• 12 years ago

isn't that the same message if the user took it down? I.e. how do you know GitHub took it down themselves? btw, I also feel it's pretty wrong to exploit a workaround like this to obtain the software against the authors' wishes.

danielhunt5• 12 years ago

True, there's no proof that they did it.

I'd still put money on them having done it.

maxerickson3• 12 years ago

Can you articulate why?

Their terms of service aren't exactly a grand stand for freedom of expression:

We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and Accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Service.

From:

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service

danielhunt5• 12 years ago

Well, I suppose I can try.

While I understand that Github is a private body and that their site is, well, their site ... forcibly deleting someone's gist simply because they don't like that that someone has found a way around their invite process smacks of underhandedness.

Will they suspend his account permanently as a result of this leak? Will he have his account limited in some other way, preventing him from having private repos, for example? Will they lash out against anyone sharing Atom.zip that they can trace back to a github account?

It's just all very "our show, our rules" of them to delete the gist.

And yes, I understand that it is their show. And yes, their ruleset too.

Doesn't make me feel any comfier in the knowledge that they'll simply delete anything that they don't approve of.

kayoone2• 12 years ago

Imo its perfectly reasonable to not want your new product leak out before official release for numerous reasons, like it not being finished/ready for example.

oneeyedpigeon9• 12 years ago

And for the reasons they give in their FAQ:

This beta invite program is designed to let us carefully control how many new people get access to Atom each day so we can provide timely bug fixes and support responses.

jasonkester• 12 years ago

No. Of course not. Seems like the easiest decision they made all week.

Imagine it was your software. And that somebody had pirated your beta and actually posted instructions on how to do so on the forums of your own website. What would you do?

Naturally, you'd delete the comment the second you saw it, then start working on patching the hole.

Which is what they did.

archagon• 12 years ago

This kinda feels a little piracy-ish. Github clearly wants to limit beta access for now.

(...with that said, I couldn't help myself.)

sveme3• 12 years ago

From the README:

4. To help us improve the editor, Atom sends usage information to Google Analytics. See [atom/metrics](https://github.com/atom/metrics) for details.

That is quite horrible in my opinion. Do I want an application on my computer that constantly sends information to Google and Github?

What kind of information is it sending? (from the link)

Collected Data

+ A unique identifier that is generated by computing the SHA-1 of the machine's MAC address.

+ The screen width and height

+ The version of Atom being used

+ The name of each item opened in a pane such as EditorView, SettingsView, and MarkdownPreviewView

+ The amount of time the current window was open for

+ The amount of time the current window took to load

+ The amount of time the app took to launch

Item no. 4 is the critical one. I really don't like this. However, you can apparently disable this:

If you do not want this information reported, disable this package from the Metrics section of the Settings view `(cmd-,)`.

(edit: removed typo)

userbinator2• 12 years ago

That is disturbing. I've had *.google-analytics.com nullrouted ever since I heard of GA.

SHA-1 of the machine's MAC address.

There's only 2^48 MAC addresses, there are 2^160 SHA-1 hashes. With computing power at where it is today, a bruteforce over the MAC space wouldn't take long.

On the other hand, spoofing the data is also an alternative way of opposition...

qpleple• 12 years ago

a bruteforce over the MAC space wouldn't take long

Indeed, best supercomputers are running today around 10 petaFLOPS (= 10^16 FLoating-point Operations Per Second) and there are 2^48 ~= 10^15 possible MAC addresses.

Tohhou• 12 years ago

How dare they collect usage data to improve their free product!!!

jumpwah• 12 years ago

It's not free (as in speech nor beer). Unless something has changed (I haven't been following), it will become paid after the beta period is over.

paukiatwee2• 12 years ago

Sorry to tell you, it is not free. https://atom.io/faq "We haven't settled on pricing yet, but you can expect it to be competitively priced compared to similar editors."

aidos2• 12 years ago

I believe that the final product isn't going to be free - so that changes the landscape of the argument. Then again, maybe they won't have analytics in that version.

Note: I'm not making a comment on it being a paid for app - they've released bucket loads of open source code they wrote to create the editor. For that they should be praised.

sveme3• 12 years ago

It doesn't matter whether it is free or not. My only aim was to provide information that might be relevant for some people interested in trying out Atom (admittedly I mixed this information with my personal position towards Google and the ever-present tracking aka surveillance) so that they know the implicit price of its usage.

You are free to use Atom or anything else, but you should always have as much information available as possible to correctly judge what you pay for any given thing.

ksk• 12 years ago

Executing analytics code consumes CPU and network resources that I pay for so I do think people should have a say in what a third party does with them.

devcpp2• 12 years ago

If it's "free" then you're the product (in this case, a promotion for Github).

And I think I have the right to refuse to be sold if there are better alternatives. They'll either have to step up their game (with FOSS) or lose me.

escaped_hn• 12 years ago

Can anyone reupload the zip to another host? It doesn't work for me.

asogi3• 12 years ago

Same here. Though of course I'd prefer to get it from GitHub directly.

bluenose692• 12 years ago

There doesn't seem to be a way to emulate Vi or Emacs :-(

pi-rat• 12 years ago

Install the 'Vim mode' plugin (under Packages)

bluenose692• 12 years ago

Excellent!!!

Cless2• 12 years ago

Click the underlined "Atom.zip" next to "Download:" to download it.

http://speedyshare.com/cjJSs/Atom.zip

jjsz• 12 years ago

Thanks.

Jxnathan2• 12 years ago

Download: http://www.filedropper.com/atom_1

message• 12 years ago

FileDropper is really slow for europe. Mirror: http://www68.zippyshare.com/v/17397784/file.html

milankragujevic• 12 years ago

Here's a command to download from zippyshare without using the website.

wget http://www68.zippyshare.com/d/17397784/131268/Atom.zip \ --referer='http://www68.zippyshare.com/v/17397784/file.html' \ --cookies=off --header "Cookie: JSESSIONID=F95B7128B57441E49B5F33920D27AFD0" \ --user-agent='Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1)'

ashwinnaidu• 12 years ago

Thanks Jxnathan

paukiatwee2• 12 years ago

Off topic: From Atom's FAQ, Atom is not going to be free.

"We haven't settled on pricing yet, but you can expect it to be competitively priced compared to similar editors"

Then why drop Sublime and move to Atom?

oe• 12 years ago

Better extendability?

RivieraKid2• 12 years ago

Does anyone have the Atom.zip?

uu2• 12 years ago

I think I've found the original gist: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9265315

danielhunt5• 12 years ago

Also gone

agumonkey2• 12 years ago

    $ curl -L https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download 
    {"message":"Not Found"}
    
    $ curl -sLI https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download 
    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
    Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:23:50 GMT
    Set-Cookie: request_method=HEAD; path=/; secure
    Status: 404 Not Found
    Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
    X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
    X-Request-Id: f69dc125-390e-40cc-969c-586a04dfa65d
    X-Runtime: 0.014472
    X-Ua-Compatible: chrome=1
    X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block
    Connection: keep-alive

I guess the game is over

aidos2• 12 years ago

Notice the other comments set the user agent - to one I assume is used by the app itself when it does auto updates. You probably need to set that:

    -A "Atom/0.1 CFNetwork/1.5

agumonkey2• 12 years ago

true I forgot to paste it back, same difference though:

    $ curl -sLI https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download -A "Atom/0.1 CFNetwork/1.5"
    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
    Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:55:36 GMT
    Set-Cookie: request_method=HEAD; path=/; secure
    Status: 404 Not Found
    Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
    X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
    X-Request-Id: 23d92789-1d1f-4ed0-bb95-9e2ff4b33bbf
    X-Runtime: 0.014090
    X-Ua-Compatible: chrome=1
    X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block
    Connection: keep-alive

asogi3• 12 years ago

So, now that the zip file is missing from GitHub, some people are starting to upload it elsewhere. Can the people who got it from GitHub earlier post the result of running

  md5 Atom.zip

? That might help mollify the paranoid conscience.

(EDIT: or any other hash function for that matter.)

Jxnathan2• 12 years ago

MD5 (Atom.zip) = 5454bd3a8271c93f5225cd2b57cdab81

uu2• 12 years ago

$ shasum -a 256 Atom.zip

4614ec62feaea32392ad7f6b3a80534c8ad0c758ed210cabafcc86c5c49a49a1 Atom.zip

horaceho• 12 years ago

I think the atom.zip is being updated continuously. Today I finally got my invitation and it gives a different shasum too. File diff shows the Info.plist of my newly downloaded version as of 2014-03-07 is:

    <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
    <string>0.69.0</string>

bradleyg_• 12 years ago

Yeah, now updates within the app are broken.

m4k• 12 years ago

Is there a way to install in ubuntu?

chid• 12 years ago

not until it's released (or you use OSX in a VM)

shanjili• 12 years ago

this is a test

xu85131208• 12 years ago

thank you.

calvaro• 12 years ago

hello

Download Atom editor without an invite

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