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Discussion on: 3 Ways to Sync a Forked Repository on GitHub AUTOMATICALLY

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Petr Švihlík

Thanks for this helpful article. I took the approach #2 a one step further and created a Postman collection with all the API calls necessary to refresh the repos I work with daily.
Postman collection

Then I created a Postman monitor to run the collection regularly every couple of hours.
Postman monitor

And this is the result:

running monitor

And it works perfectly! So thanks for the inspiration :)

PS: there is a fourth approach and that is using this GitHub application: github.com/wei/pull

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Davide 'CoderDave' Benvegnù

Wow, a lot of work on those APIs :)

And thanks for the app, I wasn't aware that existed!