takolabel is a CLI tool for manipulating GitHub Labels across multiple repositories.

$ brew install tnagatomi/tap/takolabel

Download packaged binaries from Releases page in this repository.

Set environment variables below (via export command etc.).

• TAKOLABEL_TOKEN (required)
  • GitHub Personal access token. A token with repo scope is needed if it will be run on a private repository. public_repo scope will suffice if it's a public repository.
• TAKOLABEL_HOST (optional)
  • Set this variable to the host URL (e.g. https://ghe.example.com/) if you want to work with repositories hosted on GitHub Enterprise Server. Manipulations will take place in github.com repositories if you didn't set this variable.

--dry-run for all operations are supported.

$ takolabel create

Create labels to the repositories specified in the YAML file.

Write labels settings in takolabel_create.yml and put in the same directory as the one where you run the command.

e.g.

repositories:
  - some-owner/some-owner-repo-1
  - some-owner/some-owner-repo-2
  - another-owner/another-owner-repo-1
labels:
  - name: Label 1
    description: This is the label one 
    color: ff0000
  - name: Label 2
    description: This is the label two
    color: 00ff00
  - name: Label 3
    description: This is the label three
    color: 0000ff

$ takolabel delete

Delete labels in the repositories specified in the YAML file.

Write labels settings in takolabel_delete.yml and put in the same directory as the one where you run the command.

e.g.

repositories:
  - some-owner/some-owner-repo-1
  - some-owner/some-owner-repo-2
  - another-owner/another-owner-repo-1
labels:
  - Label 1
  - Label 2
  - Label 3

$ takolabel sync

Sync labels in the repositories to those of specified in the YAML file.

Write labels settings in takolabel_sync.yml and put in the same directory as the one where you run the command.

e.g.

repositories:
  - some-owner/some-owner-repo-1
  - some-owner/some-owner-repo-2
  - another-owner/another-owner-repo-1
labels:
  - name: Label 1
    description: This is the label one
    color: ff0000
  - name: Label 2
    description: This is the label two
    color: 00ff00
  - name: Label 3
    description: This is the label three
    color: 0000ff

$ takolabel empty

Delete all the labels in the repositories specified in the YAML file.

Write repositories settings in takolabel_empty.yml and put in the same directory as the one where you run the command.

e.g.

repositories:
  - some-owner/some-owner-repo-1
  - some-owner/some-owner-repo-2
  - another-owner/another-owner-repo-1