How to clone all repos at once from GitHub?

Question

I have a company GitHub account and I want to back up all of the repositories within, accounting for anything new that might get created for purposes of automation. I was hoping something like this:

git clone [e-mail]:company/*.git 

or similar would work, but it doesn't seem to like the wildcard there.

Is there a way in Git to clone and then pull everything assuming one has the appropriate permissions?

Answer 1

In case anyone looks for a Windows solution, here's a little function in PowerShell to do the trick (could be oneliner/alias if not the fact I need it to work both with and without proxy).

function Unj-GitCloneAllBy($User, $Proxy = $null) {
    (curl -Proxy $Proxy "https://api.github.com/users/$User/repos?page=1&per_page=100").Content 
      | ConvertFrom-Json 
      | %{ $_.clone_url } 
      # workaround git printing to stderr by @wekempf aka William Kempf
      # https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git/issues/109#issuecomment-21638678
      | %{ & git clone $_ 2>&1 } 
      | % { $_.ToString() }
}

Answer 2

This python one-liner will do what you need. It:

• checks github for your available repos

• for each, makes a system call to git clone

  python -c "import json, urllib, os; [os.system('git clone ' + r['ssh_url']) for r in json.load(urllib.urlopen('https://api.github.com/orgs/<<ORG_NAME>>/repos?per_page=200'))]"
  

Answer 3

Another shell script with comments that clones all repositories (public and private) from a user:

#!/bin/bash

USERNAME=INSERT_USERNAME_HERE
PASSWORD=INSERT_PASSWORD_HERE

# Generate auth header
AUTH=$(echo -n $USERNAME:$PASSWORD | base64)

# Get repository URLs
curl -iH "Authorization: Basic "$AUTH https://api.github.com/user/repos | grep -w clone_url > repos.txt

# Clean URLs (remove " and ,) and print only the second column
cat repos.txt | tr -d \"\, | awk '{print $2}'  > repos_clean.txt

# Insert username:password after protocol:// to generate clone URLs
cat repos_clean.txt |  sed "s/:\/\/git/:\/\/$USERNAME\:$PASSWORD\@git/g" > repos_clone.txt

while read FILE; do
    git clone $FILE
done <repos_clone.txt

rm repos.txt & rm repos_clone.txt

Answer 4

I made a script with Python3 and Github APIv3

https://github.com/muhasturk/gitim

Just run

./gitim

Answer 5

There is also a very useful npm module to do this. It can not only clone, but pull as well (to update data you already have).

You just create config like this:

[{
   "username": "BoyCook",
   "dir": "/Users/boycook/code/boycook",
   "protocol": "ssh"
}]

and do gitall clone for example. Or gitall pull

Answer 6

Simple solution:

NUM_REPOS=1000
DW_FOLDER="Github_${NUM_REPOS}_repos"
mkdir ${DW_FOLDER}
cd ${DW_FOLDER}
for REPO in $(curl https://api.github.com/users/${GITHUB_USER}/repos?per_page=${NUM_REPOS} | awk '/ssh_url/{print $2}' | sed 's/^"//g' | sed 's/",$//g') ; do git clone ${REPO} ; done