To use the npm packages access github API you need to first generate a token. You can generate a personal token follow this guide.
Once a token is generated add the following lines to the .bashrc
export GITHUB_USER="<USERNAME>"
export GITHUB_TOKEN="<TOKEN>"
you need to first install npm package manager
sudo apt-get install npm
Then you need the install the following three packages
The package github-labels lets you to add labels to your github repository from .json file directly using
labels -c <file> -f <github_user>/<repo_name> -t <token>
e.g. labels -c github-labels.json -f yeshasvitvs/github-labels -t ${GITHUB_TOKEN}
NOTE: The option -f is force option which will delete all existing labels.
The package github-label-manager lets you to clear the labels from a repository.
To remove the existing labels in a repository use
glm -u <github_user> -t <token> clear <origin-repo-name>
e.g.glm -u ${GITHUB_USER} -t ${GITHUB_TOKEN} clear github-labels
NOTE: This only removes the labels in one page. If you have more the one page of labels you need to run the above command multiple times to delete all the labels.
The package copy-github-labels-cli lets you to copy the labels from one repository to another repository.
To copy the labels from one repository to another repository use
copy-github-labels -t <token> <source-repo> <destination-repo>
e.g. copy-github-labels -t ${GITHUB_TOKEN} yeshasvitvs/github-labels yeshasvitvs/my-awesome-new-repo