• Create backups from GitHub
  • Starred repos
  • Public repos of any user
  • Private and public repos you own
• Define multiple jobs for different users and different Gitea destinations

GitHub repos that were previously open-source sometimes get taken down. github-archive is a cronjob as a Docker image that will poll the repos configured repo sources on GitHub and will automatically create a mirror in your Gitea instance. Gitea will download the repository and can even download wikis, labels, issues, pull requests, releases and milestones. It can also keep the source code in sync as long as the upstream source is available.

You can archive all the repos you ever starred on GitHub or create a private archive of all your public and private repos on GitHub. As github-archive continously polls once it's set up, you can just forget about it and star or create repos as you like. It will take care of the archival for you.

github-archive is a simple Docker image to just host somewhere and run in the background.

docker-compose.yaml

services:
  github-archive:
    image: ghcr.io/kennethwussmann/github-archive:latest
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - ./jobs.yaml:/app/jobs.yaml

jobs.yaml

githubSource:
  accessTokens: "fill-me"
giteaDestination:
  url: https://try.gitea.io/api/v1
  accessToken: "fill-me"
  org: github-archive-test
jobs:
  - type: starred
    name: "Starred Repos"
    schedule: "1 0 * * *"
    githubSource:
      user: "SomeUsername"
  - type: repos
    name: "Public Repos of Someone"
    schedule: "1 0 * * *"
    githubSource:
      user: "ghost"
  - type: repos
    name: "My Private Repos"
    schedule: "1 0 * * *"
    githubSource:
      filter:
        visibility:
          - private

For more details see the Getting Started guide and Configuration guide

Please ensure that the software license of the software you want to archive is actually allowing this use-case.