---
id: "unwatching-all-repos-in-github-org"
title: "Unwatch All Repositories in a GitHub Organization"
description: "Using the GitHub CLI to unsubscribe from repositories."
pubDate: "2022-06-03T00:00:00.000Z"
tags:
  - "code"
  - "GitHub"
  - "gh"
  - "automation"
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---
I am currently changing teams at Google and need to unsubscribe from all repositories in my former GitHub organization. This is possible to do at github.com/watching, but as always, I want to avoid a bunch of clicks. This will require a few steps:

1. Find existing subscriptions using the Github API.
2. Filter out subscriptions that are not in the organization.
3. Unsubscribe from each repository.

I’m planning to use the [GitHub cli](https://cli.github.com/) to make this a little smoother.

```bash
gh api --paginate "https://api.github.com/user/subscriptions" |
  | jq '.[] | .full_name' 
  | grep googlemaps 
  | sort
```

I was subscribed to the following repositories in the GitHub organization.

```text
"googlemaps/.github"
"googlemaps/android-maps-rx"
"googlemaps/android-places-ktx"
"googlemaps/google-maps-services-go"
"googlemaps/google-maps-services-python"
"googlemaps/googlemaps.github.io"
"googlemaps/js-api-loader"
"googlemaps/js-jest-mocks"
"googlemaps/js-markerclustererplus"
"googlemaps/js-markermanager"
"googlemaps/js-markerwithlabel"
"googlemaps/js-ogc"
"googlemaps/js-polyline-codec"
"googlemaps/js-samples"
"googlemaps/js-three"
"googlemaps/js-types"
"googlemaps/openapi-specification"
"googlemaps/react-wrapper"
"googlemaps/v3-utility-library"
```

Now all I had to do was pipe this into another `gh api` command to delete the subscription.

```bash
gh api --paginate "https://api.github.com/user/subscriptions" |
  | jq '.[] | .full_name' \
  | grep googlemaps \
  | xargs -I {} \
    gh api \
      -X DELETE \
      "https://api.github.com/repos/{}/subscription"
```

Now when I go to one of the repositories, I see that I am only subscribed to “Participating and @mentions” instead of “All Activity”.

[![GitHub watch notifications menu](https://justin.poehnelt.com/images/github-notifications.png)](https://justin.poehnelt.com/images/github-notifications.png)

GitHub watch notifications menu

**Note**: The REST api docs are at <https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/watching#delete-a-repository-subscription>.


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