GitHub Backup 💾

Save your GitHub repositories to a local directory.

Dependencies

You must have Node.js and npm installed globally on your machine.

Then, install the project dependencies:

npm install

Setup your credentials

Create a personal access token (classic) with the repo scope.

Usage

1 - Setup your environment variables

Export your variables by running the following commands in your terminal:

export GITHUB_TOKEN="<personal-access-token>"
export BACKUP_DIR="<path-to-backup-directory>"

BACKUP_DIR is the absolute path to the directory where you want to save your repos.

2 - Save your repos

This script will clone all your repositories to the BACKUP_DIR directory.

npm run clone

3 - (Optional) Save public repos

You might want to save some cool GitHub public repositories as well.

To do so, add the URL of the repos in the repos.json file and run the following command:

npm run public

They will be saved in the $BACKUP_DIR/public directory.