github-unwatch

Unsubscribe from watching a whole bunch of github repositories. This is a simple shell script that automates something that'd be tedious to do manually...

Usage

Set these env variables:

GH_USER: username
GH_TOKEN: access token for the github API
GH_PAGES: no. of pages in the subscription API, you can find it via curl -H "Authorization: token $GH_TOKEN" https://api.github.com/users/$GH_USER/subscriptions | grep Link

Then generate a list of all repos you're subscribed to:

$ ./github-unwatch.sh list_repos > list.txt

Examine the list and delete repos you still want to watch -- everything within the list will be un-watched.

Now run the unsubscribe command and watch it free your GH inbox:

$ cat list.txt | ./github-unwatch.sh unsubscribe
Unsubscribed from:
 - odino/some
 - odino/thing
 - odino/else
done.