PyGitHub Utilities

GitHub API utilities for managing large numbers (10..1000) of users and repositories for education and institutions. GitHub v3 API is used via actively developed and growing PyGitHub. For very large number of repos say 1000+, it may be more useful and fast to use the GraphQL GitHub v4 API. Input / output is often via spreadsheet, as a gateway to APIs of other services such as Blackboard.

This repository helps us avoid having to use GitHub Education.

For example:

• create repo for each team project (CreateGithubTeamRepos.py)
• mass-add per-project collaborators (AddGithubCollab.py)
• duplicate (mirror) lots of repos (DuplicateGithubRepos.p)

We also maintain Python-based Git utilities.

An important feature in

python CountGithubForks.py username

is showing which forks of your repos have had changes "ahead of" the parent repo.

Count how many total GitHub stars a GitHub account has:

python CountGithubStars.py username

That will take a couple seconds even for large numbers of repos.

Mass duplicate GitHub repos

DuplicateGithubRepos based on spreadsheet input, mass duplicate GitHub repos.

API Key

Users will need a GitHub API token, as the unauthenticated API access is severely limited.

1. Generate GitHub API token with permission appropriate to the PyGitHub Utilities script being used.
2. Copy that text string to a secure location on your computer.

permissions

For public repos, "public_repo" is needed. For private repos, "repo" is needed.

"admin:org" Oauth does not work.

It's suggested you create an Oauth key for this, and then disable/delete this key permissions when done to avoid a security issue. To do this, including for Organizations, go to your Username, Settings, Developer Settings, Personal Access Tokens and set repo:public_repo. For organization private repos, you need "repo" permissions on the Oauth token.

if you get error

github.GithubException.UnknownObjectException: 404 {'message': 'Not Found',
'documentation_url': 'https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#edit'}

that typically means your Oauth key doesn't have adequate permissions.