We can utilize GitHub command-line tool, gh, to clone all repositories.
Install gh using Homebrew or check their installation guide for other methods.
$ brew install gh $ gh --version # check if it installed successfully
Before we utilize the command-line tool, we need to authenticate gh and git with GitHub.
$ gh auth login
This command will bring up the GitHub page for you to grant permissions. Once done, you can return to the terminal. Give this command a try and see if it lists all of your repositories:
$ gh repo list --limit 1000
The gh repo list command displays a nice list of all repositories, but we're only interested in the URLs.
We'll use the --json=<field> option, which outputs JSON with the specified fields. The field we want is sshUrl.
$ gh repo list --json=sshUrl
The output looks like the following:
[ { "sshUrl": "[email protected]:rolemadelen/foo.git" }, { "sshUrl": "[email protected]:rolemadelen/bar.git" }, { "sshUrl": "[email protected]:rolemadelen/baz.git" }, { "sshUrl": "[email protected]:rolemadelen/qux.git" } ]
While we have the URLs in JSON format, we want to filter the JSON output using a jq expression so that we only have the URL as a string, not in JSON format.
$ gh repo list --json=sshUrl -q ".[].sshUrl"
Here's the output.
[email protected]:rolemadelen/foo.git [email protected]:rolemadelen/bar.git [email protected]:rolemadelen/baz.git [email protected]:rolemadelen/qux.git
Now, all we need to do is parse this string into the git clone command using the pipe.
$ gh repo list --json=sshUrl -q ".[].sshUrl" | xargs -n1 git clone
The -n1 option specifies that xargs should use at most one argument per command. Therefore, the above command will use each URL resulting from the first command before the pipe as an argument for the second command, which is git clone.