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It doesn't require any access tokens to fetch repositories;\ninstead, it uses web scraping to retrieve data.\n\nKeep in mind that if there are any changes to the website's HTML structure, it\nmight affect the tool's functionality.\n\n## basic usage\n\nBuild the program:\n\n```sh\ngo build -v\n```\n\nTo clone repositories, you can provide target names as command-line arguments.\nUser the following formats:\n\n- For a GitHub user, use `user:user-name`.\n- For a GitHub organization, user `org:organization-name`.\n\n```sh\n./repo-downloader user:octocat # clone all repositories for user octocat\n./repo-downloader org:golang # clone all repositories for organization golang\n./repo-downloader org:golang org:rust-lang user:octocat # clone repositories for every specified target\n```\n\n## using flags\n\nThere are available flags to customize the tool's behavior. Under the hood,\n`flag` package is used to parse the arguments/options/flags. Thus, it is\nrequired that all flags precede the arguments:\n\n```sh\n./repo-downloader --flag1 --flag2 ARG1 ARG2 [...]\n```\n\nFor a list and a short description of the flags, use `-h`.\n\n### --dry-run\n\nYou can provide the flag `--dry-run` for displaying the fetchable repositories\nwithout actually cloning them:\n\n```sh\n./repo-downloader --dry-run user:octocat\n```\n\n### --debug\nYou can provide the flag `--debug` for displaying additional information\nregarding what is happening under the hood:\n\n```sh\n./repo-downloader --dry-run --debug user:octocat\n```\n\n### --output-directory\n\nBy default, the repositories will be cloned in a local folder `cloned-repos`\n(created if not existing already). 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