How to automaticly git clone all your private repositories? (on github using the api)

Question

as a guy that wants to automate everything I am wondering how I can automaticly download all my private and public repositorys to my disk using the github public api(v3) under linux. Using /bin/sh.

greetings

Answer 1

It's a somewhat hacky solution and I'm somewhat eager to see a clean solution of that. Anyway, maybe someone could need this as well and since I did not find an soltuion online I'll explain it shortly.

The raw code you can execute can be found here: https://gist.github.com/Pierrefha/0436e7bf907d5ed794fe489b06bbac14

First we are using curl to get the list of all public and private repos.

curl -u USERNAME:TOKENVALUE \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
https://api.github.com/user/repos

Then we select only the lines that contain the git url.

grep git_url

now we replace anything before .com with and the ", at the end with an empty string

sed -E sQ.*.com\/\|\",QQg

Last but not least we take the remaining string(exact name of our repos) and use xargs to clone the repos.

xargs -I% git clone git@github.com:%

And we're done.