Works with new repos. Still need to make it update existing repos. As of

right now, it will just fail because git will fail to clone into a
non-empty directory.

github-backup.py

@@ -1,12 +1,26 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 
 # Author: Anthony Gargiulo (anthony@agargiulo.com)
 # Created Fri Jun 15 2012
 
 from pygithub3 import Github
 from argparse import ArgumentParser
+import os
 
+# A sane way to handle command line args.
 parser = ArgumentParser(description="makes a local backup copy of all of a github user's repositories")
+parser.add_argument("username", help="A Github username")
+parser.add_argument("backupdir", help="The folder where you want your backups to go", default="./backups")
+parser.add_argument("-v","--verbose", help="Produces more output", action="store_true")
+
+# Now actually store the args
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
+# Make the connection to Github here.
 gh = Github()
+
+# Get all of the given user's repos
+user_repos = gh.repos.list(args.username).all()
+print user_repos[0].__dict__
+for repo in user_repos:
+   os.system('git clone {} {}/{}'.format(repo.git_url, args.backupdir, repo.name))