How can I batch archive all GitHub repositories in my account? - github

Question

How do I batch archive my repositories? I'd preferably want to be able to sort through them and figure out a way to not archive my active repositories.
I have hundreds of old GitHub repositories in my account since before the GitHub notifications feature, and now I get vulnerability notifications for all of them. Here's what my notifications look, for projects that were last used maybe 6 years ago:

Answer 1

You can use the GitHub API along with two tools to achieve this. I'll be using:
Hub, but you can make direct API calls
jq, but you can use any JSON parser
Here's how:
Fetch a list of all the GitHub repositories in our account, and saving them in a file:
hub api --paginate users/amingilani/repos | jq -r '.[]."full_name"' > repos_names.txt
Go through that file manually, remove any repositories you don't want to archive
Archive all the repositories in the file:
cat repos_names.txt | xargs -I {} -n 1 hub api -X PATCH -F archived=true /repos/{}

Answer 2

Note: since 2020:
gh repo list has been released (with gh 1.7.0 in commit 00cb921, Q1 2021): it does take pagination in account, as it is similar to an alias like:
set -e
repos() {
local owner="${1?}"
shift 1
gh api graphql --paginate -f owner="$owner" "$#" -f query='
query($owner: String!, $per_page: Int = 100, $endCursor: String) {
repositoryOwner(login: $owner) {
repositories(first: $per_page, after: $endCursor, ownerAffiliations: OWNER) {
nodes {
nameWithOwner
description
primaryLanguage { name }
isFork
pushedAt
}
pageInfo {
hasNextPage
endCursor
}
}
}
}
' | jq -r '.data.repositoryOwner.repositories.nodes[] | [.nameWithOwner,.pushedAt,.description,.primaryLanguage.name,.isFork] | #tsv' | sort
}
repos "$#"
gh repo list --no-archived can limit the list to your not-yet-archived repositories
gh repo archive can then, for each element of that list, archive the GitHub repository.
wolfram77 also proposes in the comments:
gh repo list <org> | awk '{NF=1}1' | \
while read in; do gh repo archive -y "$in"; done

Answer 3

Using only gh.
gh repo list --no-archived --limit 144 --visibility public --source --json nameWithOwner --jq ".[].nameWithOwner" > repos_names.txt
Set --limit to the number of repositories you have.
Use vim to delete line which you don't want to archive by pressing dd on the line:
vim repos_names.txt
Run the the following command to arrive them
cat repos_names.txt | while read in; do gh repo archive -y "$in"; done
Clear after:
rm repos_names.txt