Script to help mirror fork a bunch of repos at once.

octofork.rb

# Fork all repos from one user to another
# Will skip any repos with same name

require 'octokit'

# Put your desired user/orgs here
origin = 'user1'
destination = 'org1'
destination_is_organization = true

# Put your Personal Access Token with Admin rights to create repos here.
access_token = 'replace me'

Octokit.auto_paginate = true

# End Config
#
repos = []   # Want to Fork
mirrors = [] # Forked previously
forks = []   # Forked this run


# Authentication #########################
#
client = Octokit::Client.new access_token: access_token
user = client.user
user.login

puts "Api Rate: #{client.rate_limit}"


# Fetch Repo Lists #######################
#

puts "Getting Repos ..."
repos   = client.repos origin

puts "Getting Mirrors ..."
mirrors = client.repos destination

puts "Will Fork #{origin} [#{repos.count}] to #{destination}"


# Fork ###################################
#
mirror_names = mirrors.collect(&:name)

repos.each do |repo|

  if(mirror_names.include? repo.name)
    puts "SKIP #{repo.full_name}"
  else
    puts ".. #{repo.full_name}"
    options = {}
    if destination_is_organization
      options[:organization] = destination
    end
    repo_fork = client.fork repo.full_name, options
    forks.push repo_fork
  end

end

puts "Forked #{forks.count} repos."