Download all Github projects to a directory

I made the following script to download all Github projects into a directory. It is fun to see everything you have accumulated over the years. :)

curl -u <USERNAME>:<OAUTH_TOKEN> https://api.github.com/user/repos\?per_page\=100 | jq ".[].git_url" | tr -d '"' | while read in; do git clone $in; done

Notes

<USERNAME> is your github username.

<OAUTH_TOKEN> can be created from here. You only need the repo scope for this.

• You may need to install jq as it isn't standard.
• You will need to be authenticated or the git clone X will fail on non public repos.
• API will only download up to 100 projects. If you have more than that you will have to page.

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