Automatically backs up a github accounts repositories

backup-github.rb

require 'fileutils'
require 'octokit'
require 'ap'

ACCOUNT_NAME  = "your-user-name"
ACCOUNT_TOKEN = "your-api-token"
ITEMS_UNDER   = "target-user-or-organisation"


REPO_ROOT = File.expand_path('../repositories', __FILE__)
FileUtils.mkdir_p REPO_ROOT

def clone_or_update!(slug, repository)
  destination = File.join(REPO_ROOT, slug)
  if File.directory?(destination)
    Dir.chdir(destination) { system "git fetch" }
  else
    Dir.chdir(REPO_ROOT) do
      system "git", "clone", "--mirror", repository, slug
    end
  end
end

client = Octokit::Client.new(:login => ACCOUNT_NAME, :token => ACCOUNT_TOKEN)

client.repositories(ITEMS_UNDER).each do |repository|
  name = repository["name"]
  url  = "git@github.com:#{repository["owner"]}/#{name}.git"
  puts "Getting #{name} from #{url}:"
  clone_or_update! name, url
  puts "\n\n\n"
end