GitHub repo creation script (from template)

.env

GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=
GITHUB_TEMPLATE_NAME=
GITHUB_TEMPLATE_OWNER=
GITHUB_ORGANIZATION_OWNER=

create.sh

#!/bin/bash

source ./.env

template_name=$GITHUB_TEMPLATE_NAME
template_owner=$GITHUB_TEMPLATE_OWNER
owner_name=$GITHUB_ORGANIZATION_OWNER
token=$GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN

echo "Running..."

while p= read -r line; do
	
	echo "Creating $line"

	curl -XPOST -d "{\"owner\": \"$owner_name\", \"name\": \"$line\"}" https://api.github.com/repos/$template_owner/$template_name/generate -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.baptiste-preview+json" -H "Authorization: token $token" &>/dev/null

	echo "Sleeping for 1.5s"
	sleep 1.5 # For avoiding rate limit of 10 req per min

done < ./repos.txt

repos.txt

test1
test2
test3