mirror all starred git repos to your private git server

mirror.py

import os
import subprocess
import requests

# Replace with your GitHub token
GITHUB_TOKEN = ''
# Replace with your private Git server's HTTPS URL
PRIVATE_GIT_SERVER = 'https://user_name:pat@domain/user_name/'

GIT_SERVER_USERNAME = 'john'
GIT_SERVER_PAT = ''

def get_starred_repos(user):
    headers = {'Authorization': f'token {GITHUB_TOKEN}'}
    url = f'https://api.github.com/users/{user}/starred'
    repos = []
    page = 1
    while True:
        response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params={'page': page})
        if response.status_code == 200:
            repos.extend(response.json())
            if len(response.json()) == 0:
                break
            page += 1
        else:
            break
    return repos

def create_repo_on_forgejo(repo_url, repo_name):
    data = {
        'name': repo_name,
        'description': repo_url,
        'auto_init': True,
        'private': True
    }
    url = f'https://domain/api/v1/user/repos?token={GIT_SERVER_PAT}' # Adjust the URL as per Forgejo's API
    response = requests.post(url, json=data)
    if response.status_code == 201:
        return True
    else:
        print(f"Failed to create repository {repo_name} on Forgejo: {response.text}")
        return False

def mirror_repo_to_forgejo(repo_url, destination):
    # Clone the repository
    subprocess.run(['git', 'clone', '--mirror', repo_url ], check=True)
    # Change directory to the cloned repo
    repo_name = repo_url.split('/')[-1]
    os.chdir(repo_name)
    # Push to the Forgejo Git server
    subprocess.run(['git', 'remote', 'add', 'forgejo', destination], check=True)
    subprocess.run(['git', 'push', 'forgejo', '--mirror'], check=True)
    # Change back to the parent directory
    os.chdir('..')

def main():
    user = '' # Replace with the GitHub username
    repos = get_starred_repos(user)
    for repo in repos:
        repo_url = repo['clone_url'] # Assuming HTTPS URL; adjust for SSH if necessary
        repo_name = repo_url.split('/')[-1].replace('.git', '')
        # Create the repository on Forgejo if it doesn't exist
        if not create_repo_on_forgejo(repo_url, repo_name):
            print(f"Skipping {repo_name} due to failure in creating it on Forgejo.")
            continue
        # Mirror the repository to Forgejo
        mirror_repo_to_forgejo(repo_url, PRIVATE_GIT_SERVER + repo_name )

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

^this is better:
https://github.com/juergenhoetzel/github2gitea-mirror/tree/master