Migrating Azure Devops Activity to GitHub 🔄️

GitHub isn’t just a place to store code anymore. For many developers, it’s a living portfolio, a snapshot of what they’re building, exploring, and learning. Though, my GitHub profile didn’t reflect that at all. This happened when I joined a company that don't use GitHub for managing the codebase. Most of my day-to-day work happens in a private codebase hosted on **Azure DevOps**. So even though I’m actively coding, shipping, and solving problems, my GitHub looked… inactive. Almost like I stopped coding altogether. ## The Idea One night, I decided to fix this. Since I genuinely enjoy building automation scripts, I thought: Why not automatically sync my activity from azure DevOps into my GitHub account? So I built a small script that: 1. Pulls my commits from Azure DevOps (where I’m the author) 2. Replays them into a private GitHub repository 3. Runs automatically on a daily schedule ## How It Works The setup is pretty straightforward: - Uses Azure DevOps APIs to fetch commits - Filters commits by author - Pushes them into GitHub as new commits (A private repository is recommended to contain your activity) - Runs daily using GitHub Actions. Now, my GitHub profile reflects actual activity again without changing how or where I work. 😁 The script was originally built for my own use, but it is open-source in case it’s useful to others. If you’re working across different platforms and want a unified presence, this might help or at least spark an idea. 👉 Check it out: {% embed https://github.com/Raamyy/azuredevops-commits-migrator %} ## Main function ```js async function main() { if(AZURE_NAME == "") { console.error("AZURE_NAME is not set. Please add it to the github secrets with your Azure username. exiting..."); return; } let COMMITS = []; let projects = await getProjects(); for (let project of projects) { let repositories = await getRepositories(project); for (let repo of repositories) { let commits = await getCommits(project, repo.name, AZURE_NAME, repo.defaultBranch); COMMITS = COMMITS.concat(commits); } } COMMITS = COMMITS.sort(function (a, b) { return new Date(a.creationDate) - new Date(b.creationDate); }); console.log(`got toal of ${COMMITS.length} commits`); generateGitCommits(COMMITS) } ``` If you’re interested in extending it or making it more generic, contributions are welcome. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out. > Now I joined a bit bigger company that still I am not sure of it's policies regarding similar, so my GitHub is back dead again 😭 Do you care about the activity graph, or do you prefer to keep work and personal strictly separate?"