GitCR

A dead simple script for bulk creation and deletion of GitHub repositories

Check out the blog related to this project: 7 things I learnt from a script for repository creation.

Functionalities

• Bulk create repositories from a template
• Revert creation

Instructions to run

Pre-requisites

• Docker, or a linux based system with curl and jq installed.
• Github personal access token with write and delete permissions.
• A template repository.

Setup

You'll need 2 things to get started:

1. A file called .env with the following variables. See the sample.

2. The second thing that is needed is a repos.txt file with the name of the repositories that you want to create. The number of repositories can be anywhere between 1 to 5000, due to the rate limitation of the GitHub API. eg:

repo-1
repo-2
repo-3
...
repo-5000

See a sample here

Execution

To run the scripts on any platform, replace {PATH}…