Managing GitHub Watching en masse

README.md

Managing GitHub Watching

I decided to unwatch many repos in multiple organizations. Here are two scripts that I wrote to make that possible. It works like:

1. I load GitHubAccessToken in my environment, an environment variable that gives these access
2. I run node get-all-watched.js > all-watching.txt to dump all watching into a text file
3. Run grep "^developmentseed" all-watching > developmentseed.txt, for instance, to make a text file of only repos in the developmentseed org that I'm watching
4. Run node unwatch-file-of-repos.js developmentseed.txt to unwatch all those repos.

get-all-watched.js

var gotLinks = require('got-links');
var ghGot = require('gh-got');

var getAllWatching = accessToken => gotLinks({
  got: ghGot,
  url: 'user/subscriptions',
  options: {
    token: accessToken
  },
  reducer: (memo, response) => memo.concat(response.body)
});

getAllWatching(process.env.GitHubAccessToken).then(list => {
  list.forEach(l => console.log(l.full_name));
});

package.json

{
  "name": "manage-watching",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "license": "MIT",
  "dependencies": {
    "gh-got": "^5.0.0",
    "got-links": "^1.0.0"
  }
}

unwatch-file-of-repos.js

var ghGot = require('gh-got');
var fs = require('fs');

fs.readFileSync(process.argv[2], 'utf8')
  .split('\n')
  .filter(String)
  .forEach(line => ghGot(`repos/${line}/subscription`, {
    method: 'DELETE',
    token: accessToken
  }));