Unwatch GitHub repos

When you need to perform an operation on a large number of GitHub repositories, their REST API and some command line magic comes in handy. This short talk will demonstrate a technique to watch and un-watch GitHub repositories using ad-hoc scripting. The example should give a good idea how to perform other bulk operations too.

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1. WATCH OR UN-WATCH GITHUB REPOSITORIES USING GITHUB API + CURL + JQ + BASH https://speakerdeck.com/janosgyerik/unwatch-github-repos
2. So I have this setting on GitHub…
3. 2 days after joining SonarSource Org…
4. How to un-watch many?
5. How to un-watch many? click click click …
6. click click click … click click click … click click click … click click click … click click click … click click click … click click cli click click cli click click cli click click cli click click cli click click cli click click click … click click click … click click click … click click click … click click click … click click click … How patient are you?
7. Search on GitHub API for “watching” (or, well, how about just “w”…)
8. https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/watching/#get-a-repository-subscription
9. First attempt:
10. Could be important?
12. Second attempt…
13. Third attempt?
14. Un-watch one
15. Un-watch one
16. List ‘em all
17. Un-watch ‘em all