fork-cleaner

Cleans up old and inactive forks on your GitHub account.

You'll need to create a personal access token with repo and delete_repo permissions.

Then, download the latest release and execute the binary as in:

./fork-cleaner --token "my github token"

Fork-Cleaner will show you repos that:

• are forks;
• have no forks (customizable via --include-forked);
• have no stars (customizable via --include-starred);
• have no open pull requests to upstream;
• had no activity in the last 1 month (customizable via --since);
• are not private (customizable via --include-private,);
• are not blacklisted (customizable via --blacklist).
• are even with or behind the upstream repo (customizable via --exclude-commits-ahead).

fork-cleaner will list them and ask if you want to remove them! Simple as that.

Install

On macOS:

brew install fork-cleaner

On Linux:

snap install fork-cleaner

Or download one of the archives from the releases page.