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sarah
answered Jun 24 '23 00:00
To clone all repositories from a GitHub account or organization at once, you can use the GitHub API along with a scripting language like Python . Here's a step-by-step approach to achieving this:
Generate a personal access token :
Go to your GitHub account settings .
Navigate to "Developer settings" and then "Personal access tokens".
Click on "Generate new token" and provide the necessary permissions (e.g., repo access).
Generate the token and make sure to copy it. This token will be used to authenticate API requests.
Install the required libraries:
Install the requests library in Python, which will be used to make HTTP requests to the GitHub API. You can install it using
pip install requests
Write the script :
Use the following Python script to clone all repositories from a GitHub account or organization:
import requests
def clone_all_repos(username, access_token):
headers = {
"Authorization": f"token {access_token}"
}
url = f"https://api.github.com/users/{username}/repos?type=all&per_page=100"
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
repos = response.json()
for repo in repos:
repo_name = repo["name"]
clone_url = repo["clone_url"]
print(f"Cloning {repo_name}...")
clone_command = f"git clone {clone_url}"
subprocess.call(clone_command, shell=True)
# Replace 'YOUR_USERNAME' with your GitHub username
username = "YOUR_USERNAME"
# Replace 'YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' with your generated personal access token
access_token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
clone_all_repos(username, access_token)
Replace 'YOUR_USERNAME' with your GitHub username and 'YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' with the personal access token you generated.
Run the script :
Save the script in a file with a .py extension (e.g., clone_repos.py).
Open a terminal or command prompt, navigate to the directory containing the script, and run the following command:
python clone_repos.py
The script will fetch the list of repositories associated with the given GitHub username using the GitHub API, and then clone each repository using the git clone command.