Github Privatizer

change repositories visibility in batch

Why?

not?

How to

This script needs the github cmd gh to be in path and configured

1. clone this repo and run yarn install
2. if you want, you can change the owner name in config.js. by default, it will be using the authenticated user with gh.
3. check the listConfig in config.js to match the repositories you want to change visibility
4. you can check the repository list by running yarn list-repo
5. if you don't want some of these to be changed, put them on ignoreRepositories in the config.js file
6. run yarn start or node index.js to change the visibility for your github projects.

Options in config.js file

• owner: Repository owner (ex: "thejoaov")
• ignoreRepositories: Array of repositories you DON'T want to change (ex: ["thejoaov", "installation-scripts"])
• visibility: The visibility to be changed to (ex: "private")
• listConfig: Parameters to be passed to gh when listing repositories. You can check all the options available by running gh repo list --help.