Copy all Repos from Github

Github has API that you can use

grep the full_name field to get a list of all the repos

cut the relevant details to extract a neat list

Use xargs with substitution to clone the repos

curl "https://api.github.com/{user|orgs}/{username|orgname}/repos?page=1&per_page=100" \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
-H"Authorization: token YOUR_TOKEN"  \
| grep -e 'full_name' \
| cut -d \" -f 4 \
| xargs -L1 -I{} git clone git@github.com:{}

I wanted explore all my repos hosted on Github on my local machine instead.

The above command made it easy to dump the repos on my local machine

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Copy all Repos from Github

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