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I want to be able to program my ESP32 (same for ESP8266) remotely, I have used ArduinoOTA without problems, and I can upload the file into the ESP selecting the local file that I want to flash.
However I want something different. I want that the ESP downloads the new firmware located in my github repository.
Arduino OTA is just a small webserver that uploads the file from my computer to the ESP and then flashes it.
Is there a library where I can specify a web address and then it downloads the file from there?

Geoff · Answer

Since you've already used ArduinoOTA the answer is actually right under your nose!
OTA update as download

OTA update as download
The WiFi101OTA and ArduinoOTA libraries were created for upload from
IDE. But in some scenarios as for example deployed sleeping battery
powered devices it is better to have the update available for download
by the device.
In advanced section of examples you can find examples of sketch update
over download from a http server. One example shows update over the
InternalStorage object of the ArduinoOTA library. The example for
update over SD card doesn't use this library at all.

OTASketchDownload examples ArduinoHttpClient include fixed 
There are 2, one mentioning SD cards, the other not:
OTASketchDownload.ino

This example downloads sketch update over network.  It doesn't start
the OTA upload sever of the ArduinoOTA library,  it only uses the
InternalStorage object of the library  to store and apply the
downloaded binary file

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