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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
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#!/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(" ")) |
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@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