Bash script for bulk deletion of repos under your github account

github_repo_bulk_delete.sh

#! /bin/bash

## Based on and inspired by 
#   https://medium.com/@icanhazedit/clean-up-unused-github-rpositories-c2549294ee45 

## Vars

# 1. Your github user name
USERNAME=john

# 2. Token with delete_repo priviledge
#   to obtain token just go to your github account to the page
#     https://github.com/settings/tokens/new
#   ( don't forget to check 'delete_repo' checkbox before generating )
#   put the token string here between single quotes instead of x-es. 
TOKEN='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

# 3. List of repos to be deleted.
#   - plain text file in the same directory as this script with one repo name per line
#   (don't put fully qualified repo names, just the part after last slash). 
#   Change the file name here if the file is named differently.
REPO_LIST_FILE='./repolist.txt'


## Get rid of that crap

cat ${REPO_LIST_FILE} | xargs -I {} curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: token ${TOKEN}" https://api.github.com/repos/${USERNAME}/{}


## PS.

# The blog post mentioned in the beginning explaines how to make a list of your github repos in a easier way using Chrome browser extention.
# This can really help if you need to delete dozens of repos (stale forks e.g.)