Organization script for quickly archiving and deleting batches of repos via CLI.

manage_repos.sh

# Function to archive a repository
archive_repo() {
    local repo=$1
    echo "Archiving repository: $repo"
    
    # Use curl to make PATCH request to GitHub API
    if ! curl -X PATCH \
        -H "Authorization: token $PAT_ID" \
        -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
        -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
        -d '{"archived": true}' \
        https://api.github.com/repos/$repo; then
        echo "Error archiving repository $repo"
        return 1
    fi
    
    echo "Successfully archived repository: $repo"
}

# Function to delete a repository
delete_repo() {
    local repo=$1
    echo "Deleting repository: $repo"
    
    # Use curl to make DELETE request to GitHub API
    if ! curl -X DELETE \
        -H "Authorization: token $PAT_ID" \
        -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
        -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version:2022-11-28" \
        https://api.github.com/repos/$repo; then
        echo "Error deleting repository $repo"
        return 1
    fi
    
    echo "Successfully deleted repository: $repo"
}

# Check if PAT_ID environment variable is set
if [[ -z "$PAT_ID" ]]; then
    echo "Error: PAT_ID environment variable is not set."
    echo "Please set PAT_ID with your GitHub Personal Access Token."
    exit 1
fi

# Main menu
while true; do
    echo ""
    echo "1. Archive repositories"
    echo "2. Delete repositories"
    echo "3. Quit"
    read -p "Choose an option: " choice

    case $choice in
        1)
            read -p "Enter repository name to archive (or Ctrl+C to stop): " repo
            if [ -n "$repo" ]; then
                archive_repo "$repo"
            fi
            ;;
        2)
            read -p "Enter repository name to delete (or Ctrl+C to stop): " repo
            if [ -n "$repo" ]; then
                delete_repo "$repo"
            fi
            ;;
        3)
            echo "Exiting..."
            break
            ;;
        *)
            echo "Invalid option. Please try again."
            ;;
    esac
done

Quickly Delete & Archive Repos from GitHub via CLI in Terminal.md

Manage Organization Repos: Delete & Archive

Deleting and archiving repos via command line interface in the terminal using a script (for organizations); accelerating the time spent on the task if you have a large supply of repos to manage. Note if you are doing this for an individual user profile, you will need to adjust the script slightly.

😩 Existing GitHub process for deleting a remote repository is arduous for large batches

⚙️ Setting up the ./manage_repos.sh script

• Generate a fine-grained Personal Access Token ID ($PAT_ID)
• Request that the organization accept the token, review permissions
• Test for org-repo permissions, run in the terminal: curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $PAT_ID" https://api.github.com/repos/<Organization-Name>/<repo-name>
• Download the manage_repos.sh file
• Replace $PAT_ID with personal access token; or create a separate environment variable file
• Enable file by running chmod +x manage_repos.sh in the terminal
• Run the file by running ./manage_repos.sh in the terminal

👩🏽‍💻 Grabbing repo names from https://github.com/orgs/<org-name>/repositories

📝 Formatting your repository list for pasting into terminal

🤖 Running & using the script