'How to unwatch multiple repos easily on github?

I realize I watch too many repos in GitHub and the only way I've found to unwatch many of them is going to github.com/my_user_name/following, getting inside each of them and pressing Unwatch button.

Isn't there any way to unwatch them faster and easily?

Solution 1:^[1]

Native JS version of a previous answer. Navigate to https://github.com/watching and then run:

Oneliner:

Array.prototype.slice.apply(document.querySelectorAll('.js-subscription-row')).forEach(el => { const org = el.querySelector('a[href^="/YOUR_ORG"]'); if (org) el.querySelector('button').click()})

Unwrapped:

const org = 'YOUR_ORG'
const query = document.querySelectorAll('.js-subscription-row')
const rows = Array.prototype.slice.apply(query)
rows.forEach(function (el) {
  const org = el.querySelector('a[href^="/' + org + '"]')
  if (org) el.querySelector('button').click()
})

Solution 2:^[2]

Organisation specific

If you just want to unwatch repos from a single organisation, you can use this from https://github.com/watching

$('.js-subscription-row').each(function(){ var isYourOrganisation = $(this).find("a[href^='/YOUR_ORG']"); if(isYourOrganisation.length){ $(this).find('button:contains("Unwatch")').click(); } });

Substitute YOUR_ORG with whatever your organisation is called.

Solution 3:^[3]

Github has an API. You could write a script to do this using Github's API, particularly the part that deals with watching repos.

Solution 4:^[4]

I haven't seen any but, As we have power of the entire universe(in short we are developers). Use their developer API and create a small tool. The API is very descriptive,

http://developer.github.com/

Solution 5:^[5]

A few comments have mentioned the Unwatch all button at https://github.com/watching

Here's a picture:

Solution 6:^[6]

I've also found a command-line tool that use the GitHub API to unwatch multiple repositories: https://www.npmjs.com/package/github-unwatch-org-repos

I'm not a fan of command-line tools that want my password in plain text on the command line (thus visible to all system users who run 'ps' at the right time, and also stored in plain text in ~/.bash_history unless you take extreme care to avoid that), so I haven't tried it.

Solution 7:^[7]

Unwatch all button on https://github.com/watching is available.

Unwatch all repositories owned by a given user or organization

An alternative method is to use this script.

https://github.com/yukihane/github-unwatch-repositories

#! /bin/bash

# dry run:
# ./github-unwatch.bash [unwatch repository pattern] [github account] [github token]
#
# execute actually:
# ./github-unwatch.bash [unwatch repository pattern] [github account] [github token] run

set -eu

readonly REPOSITORY_PATTERN="$1"
readonly CREDENTIALS="$2:$3"
readonly RUN="${4:-dry-run}"

page=1
targets=()

while :
do
  result=($( curl \
  -u $CREDENTIALS \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  "https://api.github.com/user/subscriptions?per_page=100&page=$page" \
  | jq -r '.[].full_name' ))

  if [[ ${#result[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
    break
  fi

  for e in "${result[@]}"
  do
    if [[ $e =~ $REPOSITORY_PATTERN ]]; then
      targets+=($e)
    fi
  done

  page=$((++page))
done

if [[ ${#targets[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
  exit 0
fi
for target in "${targets[@]}"
do
  echo "Unwatch: $target"
  if [[ "$RUN" == "run" ]]; then
    curl \
      -u $CREDENTIALS \
      -X DELETE \
      -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
      "https://api.github.com/repos/$target/subscription"
  fi
done

Sources

This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Overflow and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Source: Stack Overflow

Solution	Source
Solution 1	Community
Solution 2	Ralph Cowling
Solution 3	Daniel Serodio
Solution 4	TeaCupApp
Solution 5	cellepo
Solution 6	Marius Gedminas
Solution 7

'How to unwatch multiple repos easily on github?

Solution 1:[1]

Solution 2:[2]

Organisation specific

Solution 3:[3]

Solution 4:[4]

Solution 5:[5]

Solution 6:[6]

Solution 7:[7]