A quick way to find all the forks of a particular github project. see: https://github.com/akumria/findforks for a version which works now

find-forks.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import urllib2
import json
import subprocess

user=None
repo=None

github_cmd="git config --get remote.github.url".split(" ")
origin_cmd="git config --get remote.origin.url".split(" ")
# we want to determine the user / repository name
# my convention is that my own projects use 'github' as the remote
# origin when I created it. And, obviously, a clone will use 'origin'.
# so try them each
try:
    github = subprocess.check_output(github_cmd).strip()
    user, repo = github.split('/')[-2:]
    user = user.lstrip('[email protected]:')
    repo = repo.rstrip('.git')
except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
    pass  # ok, so no remote called 'github', let's try origin

if user is None and repo is None:
    try:
        origin = subprocess.check_output(origin_cmd).strip()
        user, repo = origin.split('/')[-2:]
        repo = repo.rstrip('.git')
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
        print("Could not determine user or repo.")
        os.exit(-1)

github_url='https://api.github.com/repos/%s/%s/forks'
resp = urllib2.urlopen(github_url % (user, repo))
if resp.code == 200:
    content = resp.read()
    data = json.loads(content)
    for remote in data:
        remote_add_cmd="git remote add %s %s" % (remote['owner']['login'], remote['clone_url'])
        print remote_add_cmd
        subprocess.call(remote_add_cmd.split(" "))
fetch_all_cmd="git fetch --all"
print fetch_all_cmd
subprocess.call(fetch_all_cmd.split(" "))

when I clone this repo https://github.com/muhku/calendar-ui.git - it fails. couldn't work it out I'm afraid.

but this url definitely works
https://api.github.com/repos/muhku/calendar-ui/

File "./find-forks.py", line 35, in
resp = urllib2.urlopen(github_url % (user, repo))
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 400, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 513, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 438, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 372, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 521, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Github forks api returns this header, so the script does not get all results

Link: https://api.github.com/repositories/6755841/forks?page=2; rel="next", https://api.github.com/repositories/6755841/forks?page=11; rel="last"

I've added a module find_forks based on this gist with python 3 support and it gets all forks.

This API might not have been available when this gist was created:
https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/forks/

curl -i https://api.github.com/repos/firebase/firepad/forks

I made a little bash + nodejs script to add all the forks as remotes, so we can pull down all the forks at once.

github_get_all_forks.sh

It generates commands like this:

git remote add ... git://..........
git remote add ... git://..........
git fetch --all

After running the script, you can use something like this to get an overview of what changed on all the different forks:

git log --remotes --stat --oneline --graph

Got the 404 like @johndpope but fixed it by changing:

user.lstrip('[email protected]:')

into

user.replace('[email protected]:', '')

@mdamien, the gist is fairly old. You might want to use the repository instead:

See: https://github.com/akumria/findforks or https://gitlab.com/akumria/findforks

this is working https://gist.github.com/JanX2/f7fd01bbd37a863cbd0c6c3db6c37ca2