Script to clean up GitHub notifications by marking all notifications for merged/closed Dependabot PR as read

gh-notification-cleaner

#!/bin/bash

gh api notifications --paginate --jq '.[] | [.subject.url,.url] | @tsv' | while read -r URL THREAD_URL; do
    ITEM=$(gh api $URL)
    NUMBER=$(jq -r .number <<< ${ITEM})
    TITLE=$(jq -r .title <<< ${ITEM})
    STATE=$(jq -r .state <<< ${ITEM})

    echo "$NUMBER $TITLE $STATE"

    # Pattern match on title so that we only touch things that look like Dependabot PRs
    # Customize according to need!
    if [[ "$STATE" == "closed" && "$TITLE" =~ Bump.* ]]; then
        echo "Marking closed item #$NUMBER as read: $TITLE"
        gh api -X PATCH $THREAD_URL
    fi
done