it is possible to download GitHub repository to my local computer - api

Question

hello friends i just started to use GitHub and i just want to know it is possible to download github repository to my local computer through by Using GitHub Api or Api libraries (ie. python library " pygithub3" for Github api)

Answer 1

Using github3.py you can clone all of your repositories (including forks and private repositories) by doing:
import github3
import subprocess
g = github3.login('username', 'password')
for repo in g.iter_repos(type='all'):
subprocess.call(['git', 'clone', repo.clone_url])
If you're looking to clone an arbitrary repository you can do this:
import github3
import subprocess
r = github3.repository('owner', 'repository_name')
subprocess.call(['git', 'clone', repo.clone_url])
pygithub3 has not been actively developed in over a year. I would advise not use it since it is unmaintained and missing a large number of the additions GitHub has made to their API since then.

Answer 2

As illustrated in this Gist, the simplest solution is simply to call git clone.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Script to clone all the github repos that a user is watching
import requests
import json
import subprocess
# Grab all the URLs of the watched repo
user = 'jharjono'
r = requests.get("http://github.com/api/users/%s/subscriptions" % (user))
repos = json.loads(r.content)
urls = [repo['url'] for repo in repos['repositories']]
# Clone them all
for url in urls:
cmd = 'git clone ' + url
pipe = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True)
pipe.wait()
print "Finished cloning %d watched repos!" % (len(urls))
This gist, which uses pygithub3, will call git clone on the repos it finds:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import pygithub3
gh = None
def gather_clone_urls(organization, no_forks=True):
all_repos = gh.repos.list(user=organization).all()
for repo in all_repos:
# Don't print the urls for repos that are forks.
if no_forks and repo.fork:
continue
yield repo.clone_url
if __name__ == '__main__':
gh = pygithub3.Github()
clone_urls = gather_clone_urls("gittip")
for url in clone_urls:
print url