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Download archives of GitHub repositories within an account

Source: R/organization.R
download_organization_repos.Rd

Download archives of GitHub repositories within an account

Usage

download_organization_repos(
  organizations = NULL,
  extra_repos = NULL,
  keep = character(0),
  dest_folder = getwd()
)

Arguments

organizations

Account username(s) (vector)

extra_repos

Named vector of extra repository names where names are account names.

keep

a character vector of repository names to explicitly archive and download. If this vector is length zero, all account repositories are archived and downloaded.

dest_folder

Where to save the folders with the archives.

Details

You will need a GitHub Personal Access Token.

If organizations is a personal account username, the PAT needs to be from that account.

As long as you're an owner of the organisation you're trying to back up, absolutely no permissions are required for your PAT. You will only need to add the repos scope if you wish to automatically include private repositories in the list of repos to back up. Note however that there is a workaround using the extra_repos argument, as documented below.

The reason why you might need extra_repos is if you want to download archives of private repositories, while using a GitHub Personal Access Token with no scope.

GitHub documentation on archives.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
download_organization_repos(c("maelle-test", "maelle-test"))
download_organization_repos("maelle-test", keep = "testy2") # only keep the testy2 repo
}