Why ?

What I’m trying to accomplish is a fail-safe in case something happens to GitHub which would make me loose access, be that voluntarily or involuntarily.

I am not migrating away from GitHub because I see no reason to: the platform is very useful to me, and I’d not like to loose it.

Why Gitea

I’d like a Web UI onto these repositories in addition to the files in the file system. It could have been Gitlab, but I think Gitea is probably the option with the lowest resource requirements.

When I add a repository to Gitea and specify I want it to be mirrored, Gitea will take charge of periodically querying the source repository and pulling changes in it.

How To ?

After setting up Gitea and creating a user, I create an API token in Gitea with which I can create repositories programmatically.

Then you will also need to create a Personal Access Token In Github with the below scope

1. Select public_repo scope if you just want to mirror Public Gist / Repo to your mirror
2. Select repo scope if you want to mirror both public & private Gist / Repo to your mirror
3. Select gist scope if you want to mirror private gists.

Installation

1. Install Python3 sudo apt-get install python3
2. Install PIP3 sudo apt-get install python3-pip
3. Install PyGithub pip install PyGithub

Once everything is installed.

Clone / Download this repo https://github.com/varunsridharan/github-gitea-mirror

And update src/config.json with your information And run the below cmd

Mirror Everything

Below CMD Will mirror (Public / Private ) Repository, Gists Forks & Stared Repos

python3 mirror.py 

Mirror Source Gists

python3 gist.py

Mirror Stared Gists

python3 giststared.py

Mirror Source Repository

python3 repoSource.py 

Mirror Forked Repository

python3 repoForked.py

Mirror Stared Repository

python3 repoStared.py

git clone https://github.com/varunsridharan/github-gitea-mirror