Unsubscribe from all watched repositories in a particular organization

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Remove All Subscriptions from a Specific Github Organization

This script will delete all the subscriptions in your account for the Github Organization passed to it.

This script was created when I took a new job, and my notification settings inadvertantly subscribed me to all 600+ of their repos. I wanted a better signal to noise ratio in my notifications, but I didn't want to click the "Unwatch All" button, which would remove my subscriptions to repos outside my new employer's org.

How To

1. Create a Personal Access Token with the "repo" scope, and expose it as the GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable:

$ export GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=<your-token-here>

2. Copy both files into a directory and install the requirements:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the unsubscribe.py script, and pass in the Github Organization that contains the repos you want to unsubscribe from:

$ python unsubscribe.py <whatever-github-org>

You will be prompted for "(y/n)" before any subscriptions are deleted.

Updates

• 12/3/2020 - Copied and pasted the pagination fix from @Jetersen's comment. Thanks for the fix!

requirements.txt

astroid==2.3.1
certifi==2019.9.11
chardet==3.0.4
idna==2.8
isort==4.3.21
lazy-object-proxy==1.4.2
mccabe==0.6.1
pylint==2.4.2
requests==2.22.0
six==1.12.0
typed-ast==1.4.0
urllib3==1.25.6
wrapt==1.11.2

unsubscribe.py

import os
import sys
import requests

def get_subscribed_repos_in_organization(organization, personal_access_token):
    url = "https://api.github.com/user/subscriptions?per_page=100&page=1"
    organizations = []
    while url is not None:
        print(f"GET {url}")
        response = requests.get(url,
            headers={'Authorization': 'token {}'.format(personal_access_token)})

        repos = response.json()
        [organizations.append(repo['owner']['login']) for repo in repos if repo['owner']['login'] not in organizations]
        repos_from_response = [repo['full_name'] for repo in repos if repo['owner']['login'] == organization]
        for repo_name in repos_from_response:
            yield repo_name

        try:
            url = response.links['next']['url']
        except KeyError:
            url = None

    print("list of organizations: {}".format(organizations))

def yes_or_no(question):
    reply = str(input(question+' (y/n): ')).lower().strip()
    if reply[0] == 'y':
        return True
    if reply[0] == 'n':
        return False
    else:
        return yes_or_no("Please choose")

if __name__ == '__main__':

    personal_access_token = os.environ['GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN']
    organization = sys.argv[1]

    repos_in_organization = [repo for repo in get_subscribed_repos_in_organization(organization, personal_access_token)]

    print(repos_in_organization)
    if len(repos_in_organization) is not 0:
        do_unsubscribe = yes_or_no("\nUnsubscribe from the above {} repositories?".format(len(repos_in_organization)))

        if do_unsubscribe:
            for repo_full_name in repos_in_organization:
                url = "https://api.github.com/repos/{}/subscription".format(repo_full_name)
                print("DELETE {}".format(url))
                response = requests.delete(url,
                    # params={'subscribed': False},
                    headers={'Authorization': 'token {}'.format(personal_access_token)})
                print(response.status_code)

Great script, worked like a charm, but:

• didn't catch that credentials were wrong (wrong token)
• I was hoping it will clean the "Subscription" tab (image bellow), not the "Watching" tab.
  

this work really well! Fast and easy

Thanks for this! I'd like to mention a few things in case it helps improve the script or its usage:

• Dependencies seem to require Python 3 (Python 2 is still the system default on macOS)
• If using Python 3, I found that with the latest version (3.9.5 for me), I needed to update typed-ast==1.4.0 to typed-ast==1.4.3 in order to install it.
• The personal access token seems to require SSO. (Otherwise, when I run python unsubscribe.py UrbanCompass, none of the Compass repos show up.)