This Python script exports all commits from all repositories and their respective branches for an authenticated GitHub user into a text file.

It uses GitHub's REST API v3 and requires a personal access token for authentication.

• Export commits from all repositories you own or collaborate on
• Traverse all branches in each repository
• Save commit metadata (author, date, message) to a structured text file
• Automatic pagination support for large repos and many commits

• Python 3.6+
• requests library

Install dependencies:

pip install requests

You need a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) with access to your repositories.

Set it via an environment variable:

export GITHUB_TOKEN=your_token_here

Or pass it directly as a flag when running the script.

python github_commit_exporter.py --token YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN --affiliation owner,collaborator --output commits.txt

The output text file is structured as:

owner/repo-name
    branch-name
        author-name
            2024-04-25T12:34:56Z Commit message summary