Clone all repos from a GitHub organization

clone-all-twitter-github-repos.sh

curl -s https://api.github.com/orgs/twitter/repos?per_page=200 | ruby -rubygems -e 'require "json"; JSON.load(STDIN.read).each { |repo| %x[git clone #{repo["ssh_url"]} ]}'

• | xargs -n1 git clone

we can essentially remove jq and directly use gh

gh repo list --json=sshUrl --limit 1000 -q ".[].sshUrl" | xargs -n1 git clone

though, it's asking for ssh passcode... any idea how to overcome that?

@Vaisakhkm2625,

If you don't want to use SSH protocol, just run this command¹:

gh auth login

It's interactive, so there are a couple of selections you need to make first i.e., selecting the host (GitHub or GitHub Enterprise) etc. but eventually you will reach:

What is your preferred protocol?
> http
  ssh

Select ssh, and it gh will save your preference for future gh commands. I'd recommend doing it this way so that gh can manage your credentials, BUT you can probably skip all the above by running²:

gh config set git_protocol ssh

Oops, typo! Instead of the one-liner immediately above, to use `http` instead of `ssh` the command should read

"gh config set git_protocol ssh http" (see diff below).

- gh config set git_protocol ssh
# use the below for http protocol (to bypass ssh requirement)
+ gh config set git_protocol http

Doy! 😄

Footnotes

1. gh auth login (cli.github.com/manual) ↩

2. gh config set (cli.github.com/manual) ↩

I just want to say that this thread is a great example of the open source community. An 8-year thread on a platform, with everybody posting little bits of code and share with others for free, on the platform itself.

I agree.

To clone all repos from an organisation using HTTP

gh auth login
gh repo list <organisation> --json=url --limit 1000 -q ".[].url" | xargs -n1 git clone