Privatize GitHub Repositories

I needed to privatize several repositories and thought it would be more fun to write a program instead of using GitHub's UI.

About

A simple utility that iterates through a user's public (un-forked) repositories and sets each one to private. If the user specifies repositories in the exclude.txt file, those repositories are not set to "private".

It bears mentioning that this action has consequences and should be taken with careful consideration. Use of this Software is at your own risk.

This program is written in Java, however this could also have been accomplished with curl, Python, or your favourite programming language. This program illustrates working with single-file source code programs with Java (introduced with Java SE 11).

Requirements

• Java SE 21*
• FasterXML Jackson library >= 2.18.0-rc1 (included in lib directory)
• GitHub Account and Token

*May work with Java SE 11+, however this has not been tested

Example Usage

Do a dry run

% java -cp "lib/*" Main.java <username> <token> --dry-run

Run the program against the real repositories

% java -cp "lib/*" Main.java <username> <token>

GitHub Personal Access Token

Be careful with your GitHub Personal Access Token; treat it as a password!

• Authenticating to the REST API
• Managing your personal access tokens
• Keeping your API credentials secure