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| 1 #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| 2 set -euo pipefail | |
| 3 | |
| 4 # Repositories whose notification threads should be deleted. | |
| 5 TARGET_REPOS=("ventures-gitcoin/gitcoin.com" "ycoombinator/-co") | |
| 6 DRY_RUN="${DRY_RUN:-0}" # Set DRY_RUN=1 to skip deletions. | |
| 7 | |
| 8 page=1 | |
| 9 printed=0 | |
| 10 deleted=0 | |
| 11 | |
| 12 while true; do | |
| 13 resp="$(gh api "notifications?all=true&page=${page}")" | |
| 14 count="$(echo "$resp" | jq 'length')" | |
| 15 if [[ "$count" -eq 0 ]]; then | |
| 16 break | |
| 17 fi | |
| 18 | |
| 19 echo "$resp" | jq -c '.[] | { id, title: .subject.title, repo: .repository.full_name }' | while read -r obj; do | |
| 20 # Pretty print the JSON object. | |
| 21 # echo "$obj" | jq . | |
| 22 printed=$((printed+1)) | |
| 23 | |
| 24 id="$(echo "$obj" | jq -r '.id')" | |
| 25 repo="$(echo "$obj" | jq -r '.repo')" | |
| 26 | |
| 27 for target in "${TARGET_REPOS[@]}"; do | |
| 28 if [[ "$repo" == "$target" ]]; then | |
| 29 if [[ "$DRY_RUN" == "1" ]]; then | |
| 30 echo "DRY_RUN: would delete thread ${id} for repo ${repo}" >&2 | |
| 31 else | |
| 32 echo "Deleting thread ${id} for repo ${repo}" >&2 | |
| 33 gh api --method DELETE "notifications/threads/${id}" >/dev/null | |
| 34 fi | |
| 35 deleted=$((deleted+1)) | |
| 36 break | |
| 37 fi | |
| 38 done | |
| 39 done | |
| 40 | |
| 41 page=$((page+1)) | |
| 42 done | |
| 43 | |
| 44 echo "Finished. printed=${printed} deleted=${deleted} dry_run=${DRY_RUN}" >&2 |
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