https://github.com/schollz/github-backup

Backup all the repos from Github using the official API
https://github.com/schollz/github-backup

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Backup all the repos from Github using the official API

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/schollz/github-backup
• Owner: schollz
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-08-20T19:18:03.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-08-21T15:21:53.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-19T23:34:08.635Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: backup, backup-script, github-backup
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 7.81 KB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# github-backup

As of [December, 2018](https://github.blog/2018-12-19-download-your-data/) you can download all your GitHub data with the click of a button. However, as of August 2020, this still won't work if you have too many repositories and will result in a unicorn page:

![Death screen](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6550035/90820186-d52b6300-e2e5-11ea-9849-f06dc3377154.png)

When I emailed support, they suggested to use [the official migration API](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/migrations) to do the download.

So I wrote this python script to do just that. You can simply backup all the repos from Github using the official API.

## Usage

Before you start, make sure to get a `` that has admin priveleges, see [here](https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/creating-a-personal-access-token).

```

> python -m pip install loguru click requests tqdm

> wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/schollz/github-backup/master/github-backup.py

> python github-backup.py --user schollz --token 

```

## License

MIT