github backup

A tiny python script to automatically clone/pull all your github repositories

Seeing as no service is immune to outages and/or catastrophic failures, it's always wise to have a local copy of all your work. I have many repositories, neither of them are all on one computer.

This script can be run once or on a schedule and will clone/pull all your repositories, public as well as private.

Configuration

The script will read your username and API key from github-backup.cfg, a template is supplied. Generate your API key here: https://github.com/settings/tokens/new

Dependencies

You will need pygithub3 to run this script. Install it thusly:

pip install pygithub3