Downloads a list of github repositories (defined in a config.json file) and unpacks their tarball file into a defined output directory.
First create a config JSON file, this can be named anything:
{
"owner": "pjaerr",
"repositories": [
{
"name": "Svelte-Data-Vis-Premier-League",
"branch": "gh-pages"
},
{
"name": "Pub-Name-Generator",
"branch": "master"
}
],
"outputDir": "dist"
}owner - The github username that owns the repositories
repositories - An array of objects, each object must have a name (the github repository name) and a branch (the branch you want to download)
outputDir - The place all the repositories will be unpacked to, this is relative to where the script is ran. So in that example above we would have ./dist/Svelte-Data-Vis-Premier-League and ./dist/Pub-Name-Generator written to the disk.
This will eventually be an npm package but for now you can take the index.js file and run it with node: node index <CONFIG_FILE_PATH>
I wanted to pull all of my static site projects into the final build folder of my personal site without needing to make them a joint repository, this allows me to do that and makes sure I'm only fetching them if they've changed.