Batch delete those unused stale forked repositories in your Github account

README.md

Cleaning up your Github account from those repositories you once forked and then forgot about is a tedious process when done manually.

Lets speed up this process with some automagic:

1. Open all repositories that you want to delete in new browser tabs
2. Use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbolifaimnlloiipkdnihall?hl=en to shorten them to a list and export the URL's as a text file
3. In a text editor shorten the URL's to just the last part (username/repositoryname)
4. Create a new personal API token with capability to delete repositories and paste that token in the script
5. Run ./clean-repos.sh

Enjoy your cleaned up Github account!

clean-repos.sh

#!/bin/bash
filename='repos.txt'
api_token='YOUR_TOKEN_HERE'

echo Start
while read p; do 
    echo Deleting: $p
    curl -X "DELETE" -H "Authorization: token ${api_token}" https://api.github.com/repos/$p
done < $filename