This is a very basic tool intended to stop watching a large number of GitHub repos.
Use at your own risk!
You must have Python and pip installed. I used Python 3.4.3.
First, install PyGithub to your local user directory:
pip install --user PyGithub
You should be able to leave off --user if you have permissions to install
globally and would prefer that.
Now, generate a GitHub Personal Access Token
with permissions on the scope repo. You can label the token (e.g.,
"gh-subscriptions tool"). Copy the token into a local file called
github-access-token. This must be in your working directory when you run this
tool.
Now you can list repositories that you're watching:
$ ./gh-subscriptions list
davepacheco/kartlytics
davepacheco/mdb_v8
...
You can remove yourself from a list of repositories by listing them in a file (one repository per line) and using:
$ ./gh-subscriptions remove-from-file to-remove.txt
By default, this will just print out what it would do. To actually stop watching them, use:
$ ./gh-subscriptions remove-from-file -f to-remove.txt
If you want to stop watching a lot of repositories, try something like this:
# List all the repositories that you're watching:
$ ./gh-subscriptions list | sort > watched-repos.txt
# Edit the list to include only the repos you want to stop watching:
$ cp watched-repos.txt to-remove.txt
$ vim to-remove.txt
# Hand-check the output:
$ ./gh-subscriptions remove-from-file to-remove.txt
# Finally, stop watching the repos:
$ ./gh-subscriptions remove-from-file -f to-remove.txt
For some reason I have not yet debugged, the tool does not seem to successfully unwatch all repos that you ask it to, nor does it report a problem. However, you can re-run the command and it will unwatch some of the ones it missed last time.
- PyGithub: module used for accessing GitHub. Also see PyGithub documentation.
- GitHub API documentation for listing repositories being watched and stopping watching a repository.
- Manage your GitHub Personal Access Tokens