Extract a specific folder to specific directory from a tar.gz

Question

I have searched and found how to the two portions of what I want but nothing that would allow you to do it in whole....

What I would like to do is extract a specific fol

Answer 1

This worked for me on OS X (pulling specific files from a GitHub repo):

# Move to target directory and run:
curl -#L https://github.com/USER/REPO/tarball/BRANCH | tar -xzv --strip-components 3 --include=*./some/folder