Helper to clone all GitHub repos from a given user

gclone.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

### Helper to clone all GitHub repos from a given user (requires Ruby)

# Insert here the GitHub username that you want to clone repos from
username = ""

# Insert your GitHub API access token, if needed (e.g. to access private repos)
#(http://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use)
access_token = ""

# Switch to "true" if the GitHub user is an organization
org_flag = false


# Nothing to edit below this line
require "json"
require "open-uri"

if org_flag
  url = "https://api.github.com/orgs/#{username}/repos"
else
 url = "https://api.github.com/users/#{username}/repos"
end

if access_token.length > 0
  url += "?access_token=#{access_token}"


JSON.parse(open(url).read).map{|repo|
    repo_url = repo["ssh_url"]

    puts "discovered repository: #{repo_url} ... backing up ..."

    system "git clone #{repo_url}"
}