Remove old student repositories

[king-michael]

Remove the old student repositories via api

• requires:
  • a TOKEN with the permissions: delete_repo, read:org
  • curl (installed on ubuntu)
  • jq (installed on ubuntu)
• store the following code as script
• run bash delete_repos.sh TOKEN

delete_repos.sh

#!/bin/bash
GITHUB_TOKEN=$1 
ORGANISATION="KonstanzPythonSchool"
assigment_nr=*

case $GITHUB_TOKEN in 
  ""|-h|-help|--help)
  echo "bash $0 <token>"
  echo "token need to have the permissions : delete_repo, read:org"
  exit 1
  ;;
  *)
  ;;
esac


JSON=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" https://api.github.com/graphql -d @- << EOF
{ 
 "query" : "query {
    organization(login: \"${ORGANISATION}\") {
      repositories(first: 100, privacy: PRIVATE) {
        nodes { name }
      }
    }
  }"
}
EOF
)

REPOS=$(echo $JSON | jq -r ".data.organization.repositories.nodes[].name")
for repo in $REPOS; do
  if [[ $repo == assignment-${assigment_nr} ]]; then
   echo "delete: $repo"
   curl -H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_TOKEN" -XDELETE https://api.github.com/repos/${ORGANISATION}/$repo
  fi
done