How to download a nupkg package from nuget programmatically in .NET Core?

Question

In past with .NET Framework I used this example for working with nuget programmatically

Play with Packages, programmatically!

Is there any equivalent source for

Answer 1

Best way to achieve it is by referring NugetDownloader Nuget package in your Project and use it to download any other package programmatically

Install-Package NugetDownloader

Source code and help guide on the same is available at : https://github.com/paraspatidar/NugetDownloader

Here is a quick sample on how to achieve it :

string packageName="Newtonsoft.json";
string version="10.2.1.0"; \\optional

\\initilize NugetEngine from NugetDownloader namespaces

NugetEngine nugetEngine = new NugetEngine();
nugetEngine.GetPackage(packageName, version).Wait();

sample client is also available at https://github.com/paraspatidar/NugetDownloader/tree/master/NugetDownloaderTestConsole

Alternately In case if you want to build your Nugetdownloader engine from scratch , then you might also refer https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/blob/dev/src/WebJobs.Script/Description/DotNet/PackageManager.cs as it has something similar implementation , but that too much of code understanding and extraction.