GitHub Label Transferring Script

This is a script written in Go that uses the GitHub API to transfer a set of labels from one GitHub repository to another. Note, you will need admin access to both the source and target repository for this to work.

Note: This will delete all of the existing labels in the target repository

Step 1

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/blchelle/github-transfer-labels.git

Step 2

First you will need a personal access token generated by GitHub which will be used in the script. See this guide to generate a personal access token.

Copy the generated token for step 3.

Step 3

Create a .env file at the root of the repository with a single line

GH_TOKEN=<TOKEN_FROM_STEP_2>

Step 4

Install the required go modules

go get

Step 5

Run the script. The script takes 4 command line parameters

• source_owner: the username of the source repo owner
• source_repository: the name of the source repository
• target_owner: the username of the target repo owner
• target_repository: the name of the target repository

For example: Copy all labels from blchelle/repo-with-good-labels to blchelle/repo-with-no-labels

go run main.go blchelle repo-with-good-labels blchelle repo-with-no-labels