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:
You can use the GitHub API along with two tools to achieve this. I'll be using:
Here's how:
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
Go through that file manually, remove any repositories you don't want to archive
Archive all the repositories in the file:
cat repos_names.txt | xargs -I {} -n 1 hub api -X PATCH -F archived=true /repos/{}