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A quick way to find all the forks of a particular github project. see: https://github.com/akumria/findforks for a version which works now
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import urllib2
import json
import subprocess
user=None
repo=None
github_cmd="git config --get remote.github.url".split(" ")
origin_cmd="git config --get remote.origin.url".split(" ")
# we want to determine the user / repository name
# my convention is that my own projects use 'github' as the remote
# origin when I created it. And, obviously, a clone will use 'origin'.
# so try them each
try:
github = subprocess.check_output(github_cmd).strip()
user, repo = github.split('/')[-2:]
user = user.lstrip('git@github.com:')
repo = repo.rstrip('.git')
except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
pass # ok, so no remote called 'github', let's try origin
if user is None and repo is None:
try:
origin = subprocess.check_output(origin_cmd).strip()
user, repo = origin.split('/')[-2:]
repo = repo.rstrip('.git')
except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
print("Could not determine user or repo.")
os.exit(-1)
github_url='https://api.github.com/repos/%s/%s/forks'
resp = urllib2.urlopen(github_url % (user, repo))
if resp.code == 200:
content = resp.read()
data = json.loads(content)
for remote in data:
remote_add_cmd="git remote add %s %s" % (remote['owner']['login'], remote['clone_url'])
print remote_add_cmd
subprocess.call(remote_add_cmd.split(" "))
fetch_all_cmd="git fetch --all"
print fetch_all_cmd
subprocess.call(fetch_all_cmd.split(" "))
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akumria commented May 3, 2020

@mdamien, the gist is fairly old. You might want to use the repository instead:

See: https://github.com/akumria/findforks or https://gitlab.com/akumria/findforks

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