Moving Stars

⭐ Star on GitLab.com the same repos your starred on GitHub.com! 🌠

Namespace and project name must be the same on GitHub and GitLab. Case is insensitive though 👍!

Requirements

Moving Stars requires Python 3.6 or above.

# install pyenv
git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv ~/.pyenv

# setup pyenv (you should also put these three lines in .bashrc or similar)
export PATH="${HOME}/.pyenv/bin:${PATH}"
export PYENV_ROOT="${HOME}/.pyenv"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"

# install Python 3.6
pyenv install 3.6.12

# make it available globally
pyenv global system 3.6.12

Installation

With pip:

python3.6 -m pip install moving-stars

With pipx:

python3.6 -m pip install --user pipx

pipx install --python python3.6 moving-stars

Usage

Bash

export GITHUB_TOKEN=<github_token>
export GITLAB_TOKEN=<gitlab_token>

moving-stars

Docker

docker run -e GITHUB_TOKEN=<github_token> -e GITLAB_TOKEN=<gitlab_token> --rm pawamoy/moving-stars

Tokens

• Create a new GitHub token with read:user scope.
• Create a new GitLab token with api scope.

Input file

A file containing the list of starred repositories that you want to copy on GitLab. The format of the input file is very simple.

namespace/repository
namespace2/repository2
...

Example:

microsoft/ghcrawler-cli
github/VisualStudio
Pawamoy/moving-stars
this-repo/does-not-exist
cryptsetup/cryptsetup

Other options

$ moving-stars -h
usage: moving-stars [-h] [-f FROM_FILE] [--no-pre-skip]

Command line tool to copy GitHub stars to GitLab.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f FROM_FILE, --from-file FROM_FILE
                        Read star list from file.
  -o OUTPUT_SOURCE_LIST, --output-source-list OUTPUT_SOURCE_LIST
                        Output downloaded source list to file.
  --no-pre-skip         Don't download list from target to skip already
                        starred projects.

It can be useful to first download your starred list, update it manually (to correct unmatching namespaces / project names), and then star on GitLab with this list:

moving-stars -o star_list
# edit file manually...
moving-stars -f star_list