backup-github-repo

backup-github-repo

Backup all the issues and pull requests of a Github repo, including the comments, events, and labels, as JSON and as HTML.

Features

• generate a JSON file with all the issues and pull requests, including comments (demo)
• generate one HTML file per issue or pull request (demo)
• download CSS files and images locally to allow offline browsing (demo)

Known limitations

• Private repos: while JSON download works, the tool will fail to download HTML versions (see issue)

Dependencies

• NodeJS >= 7.6
• curl
• jq

Install

git clone https://github.com/maxlath/backup-github-repo
cd backup-github-repo
npm install
# Make backup-github-repo available globally, so that all place with `Executables declared in package.json`
# can find the executable they depend on. Alternatively, edit those scripts to rely on the executables full paths
npm link

Run

cd /path/to/my/repo/to/backup
# First run will give you instructions to set a Github API token
backup-github-repo

License

MIT