GitHub Repository Tags

There are lots of threads like this asking GitHub to provide tags for repositories to make managing long lists of repositories easier. So far it seems nothing has happened, so here's a quick hack to let you use tags to manage repositories.

The small python program in this repository uses the GitHub API to get a list of your repos. and add their name, description, and URL, to a new repo., by default called repo_tags. Initially each “issue” is tagged unclassified, but you can tag them as you please, using regular issue tagging.

When re-run, repo_tags.py only creates issues for repos. that weren't already covered by an issue.

How to use

Setup

virtualenv -p python36 venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

and then log in to GitHub and create a repository called repo_tags to house the issues, it's fine to leave it empty.

Running

. venv/bin/activate  # if not just done above
python repo_tags.py

You can either put your username and password (and nothing else) in a file called login.info, or repo_tags.py will ask you for them when it's run.

For each issue it creates it pauses 10 seconds to avoid triggering GitHub rate-limiting lockouts. So it takes a long time to do the initial import, but it doesn't need supervision, so you can just leave it running.

TODO:

• handle organizations properly, currently mixed in with user repos. with bad urls
• update description for existing repositories when the description changes