How can I batch archive all GitHub repositories in my account?

Question

How do I batch archive my repositories? I'd preferably want to be able to sort through them and figure out a way to not archive my active repositories.

I have hundreds of old GitHub repositories in my account since before the GitHub notifications feature, and now I get vulnerability notifications for all of them. Here's what my notifications look, for projects that were last used maybe 6 years ago:

Answer 1

You can use the GitHub API along with two tools to achieve this. I'll be using:

• Hub, but you can make direct API calls
• jq, but you can use any JSON parser

Here's how:

1. Fetch a list of all the GitHub repositories in our account, and saving them in a file:

   hub api --paginate users/amingilani/repos | jq -r '.[]."full_name"' > repos_names.txt

2. Go through that file manually, remove any repositories you don't want to archive

3. Archive all the repositories in the file:

   cat repos_names.txt | xargs -I {} -n 1 hub api -X PATCH -F archived=true /repos/{}