This is a simple script to backup and keep local backup in sync with GitHub repositories.
This only backups git repositories, it ignores other GitHub data like issues/wiki/projects/etc.
You can copy and run backup.py and it should be enough, you only need Python
3.5+ and (for getting the repo list) the GitHub CLI
There's a simple.py script that's the simplest version of the backup.py
script with no colors and no extra information. You may want to check that out
if you want to quickly grasp how things are done.
One goal of this script is to be short and simple, so it can be easily reviewed for you to know what code you're running if you decide to use it. That's why I kept it on just one file and without third party dependencies. Which will also help with using it, just download the file and run, no need to pull packages to get it to work.
Even though I want to keep it simple, I did add some extra code to make it nicer. The script uses some colors and also shows some extra information about each repo (like whether is private or public, or if is archived) to make it using the tool a bit more enjoyable (to my taste at least).
I'm using this only on Linux, but it should work on Mac as well.
Part of the tool depends on GitHub (like getting your remote repos), but other parts like syncing the repositories does not. So this tool should work with other providers with not many changes. For example, you could fill up the json file yourself and the script should sync with no problem.