Github Cloner 🐑

What?

This python tool clones all your (own) repositories into a folder with the name of the main language used in the repository. The language is detected by the github API, which just takes the main language detected as 'repository language' as far as I know.

Example output:

Why?

I like having my code checked out locally to browse through when I'm working on something so I can use it as a reference. I could use the github website, but I like doing it locally. It might be useful to some others so I'm putting it up here. It was a quick hack for something I needed, so there might be mistakes in here and it's not the cleanest code. But it does its thing for me.

How to run it?

I have only tested this on Linux (Debian specifically, but any Linux distro should do)

Prerequisites:

Python3
PyGithub (pip install PyGithub)
Git cli tools download instructions here

Assuming the prerequisites are satisfied:

Clone this repository locally or download the python file through github. Or, copy the content, just get the python file locally.

Now run: python cloner.py note: on some linux distributions, the default python is python2. run python3 cloner.py in this case.

It will prompt you to enter your username and password for github.

Depending on the repositories and your local git setup, it might ask you to authenticate before cloning again!

What is "Unknown"?

If the language could not be detected, it will download them to a folder named "Unknown". This can happen if you have empty repositories for example.

I found a mistake! 😱