github-stars-backup

Backup a list of github starred repositories for the specified user.

Python version

• The python version requires that you generate a Personal Access Token using one of the following methods:
  • Create a "classic" token with the scope read:user.
  • Or, use a new "fine-grained token" with the Account Permissions -> Starring -> read-only permission.
• The token must be exported to the GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable
• It outputs a JSON file containing the name, description, url, homepage, language number of open issues/stars of each starred repository
• The rate limit for authenticated API requests is 5000 requests/hour.

Installation

# install requirements in a virtualenv
python3 -m venv ~/.local/venv
source ~/.local/venv/bin/activate
pip3 install PyGithub

# clone the repository
git clone https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/github-stars-backup
cd github-stars-backup

Usage

# all commands must be run from the virtualenv
source ~/.local/venv/bin/activate

./github-stars-backup.py --help
  USAGE: ./github-stars-backup.py USERNAME OUTPUT_FILE
  GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN must be declared in the environment, see https://github.com/settings/tokens

export GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=aaaabbbbccccddddeeefffggghhhiijjj
./github-stars-backup.py nodiscc github-stars-backup.json

$ cat github-stars-backup.json
{
  "ayyi/samplecat": {
    "name": "ayyi/samplecat",
    "description": "SampleCat is a a program for cataloguing and auditioning audio samples.",
    "url": "https://github.com/ayyi/samplecat",
    "homepage": "http://ayyi.github.io/samplecat/",
    "language": "C",
    "open_issues": 15,
    "stars": 33
  },
  ...
}

Bash version (legacy)

• The (unmaintained) bash version does not require API authentication.
• It doesn't handle errors well, output will be wrong when the API rate limit is exceeded. The rate limit for unauthenticated requests is only 60 requests/hour.
• An intermediary JSON file containing the full API request results will be stored at github-stars.json
• The final output is a plain text list of starred repositories

USAGE: ./github-stars-backup.sh USERNAME OUTPUT_FILE

$ ./github-stars-backup.sh nodiscc github-stars.txt
$ cat github-stars.txt

https://github.com/eliasgranderubio/dagda
https://github.com/banyanops/collector
https://github.com/building5/ansible-vault-tools
...

License

MIT