GitHub Repo Clone

Loops through all of the public and private repositories for a user, and clones them to the local system

Requirements

• Ruby installed - https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
• json gem installed - gem install json
• git installed - https://git-scm.com/
• GitHub Personal Access token
  • https://github.com/settings/tokens
  • Select Personal access tokens
  • Press Generate new token
  • Authenticate with GitHub password
  • Select repo for scope
  • Press Generate token

Setup

• Copy Personal access token value (should be a hexadecimal string), and paste it for the value of API_TOKEN
• Set CLONE_DIR to the directory where the cloned projects should exist (double backslash may be required on Windows)

Running

• Start Git bash
• ruby clone_git_repos.rb

Download / Source Code

• https://github.com/gatechgrad/clone_github_repos