Backup user repos from github, including wiki

backup-repos.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# prerequisites
# sudo pip install pyopenssl ndg-httpsclient pyasn1 gitpython --upgrade
#
# Usage: ./backup-repos.py user
#


import requests
import json
import os
import sys
from git import Repo
from time import gmtime, strftime

USER = sys.argv[1]
URL = 'https://api.github.com/users/' + USER + '/repos'

now = strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S", gmtime())
dir_name = USER + "_repo_backup_" + now
os.makedirs(dir_name)
directory = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), dir_name)
dictionary = requests.get(URL).json()

for repo in dictionary:
    print(repo["clone_url"])
    try:
        Repo.clone_from(repo["clone_url"], os.path.join(directory, repo["name"]))
    except:
        print "cant clone repo " + repo["clone_url"]

    if (repo["has_wiki"]):
        base, ext = os.path.splitext(repo["clone_url"])
        wiki = base + ".wiki" + ext
        try:
            Repo.clone_from(wiki, os.path.join(directory, repo["name"] + ".wiki"))
        except:
            print "no wiki " + wiki

Please add 'gitdb' to the list of pip packages