Quickly clean up all you repos from outdated Github service webhooks your no longer using.
Do you know this situation? After a while you’ve created a bunch of repositories on Github and added this one nice service that helped you a lot in the beginning. Maybe that was some Contionous Integration service, Jira or whatever else. Anyways, at some point you want to clean up.
I’ve been in this situation just recently and started to click through 5 of our 50 repositories and manually deleted the webhooks for exactly these services. Then I stopped and said:
I need to script this
That’s what I did. And here’s my result. Pretty simple Ruby script. Just install the github_api GEM before.
You can easily create a temporary personal access token on Github here: Creating a personal access token for the command line
require 'github_api'
# Add your personal API token here
github = Github.new oauth_token: 'YOUR_PERSONAL_TOKEN'
# Enter the Regex to search in the webhook's URL
webhook_regex = /versioneye/
# Enter your username or organisation name
username = 'YOUR_USER_OR_ORG_NAME'
# Set this to true if it's an organisation account
is_org = false
repos = if is_org
github.repos.list org: username, auto_pagination: true
else
github.repos.list user: username, auto_pagination: true
end
repos.each do |repo|
puts "Checking repo: #{repo.name}"
github.repos.hooks(
user: username,
repo: repo.name
).list.each do |hook|
next unless hook.config.url =~ search_regex
puts "\tHook found: #{hook.config.url} ... deleting it"
begin
github.repos.hooks.delete(
user: username,
repo: repo.name,
id: hook.id
)
rescue StandardError => e
puts e.inspect
end
end
endReferences
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