A program that creates an issue and pull request in a repository. Useful to test GHAs.

gha_apicalls.py

import requests
import json
import time


print('sleeping for 10 secs')
time.sleep(10)

link = 'https://api.github.com/repos/{INSERT_NAME_OF_OWNER}/{INSERT_NAME_OF_REPO}/issues'

headers = {
    'Accept': 'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
    'Authorization': 'token {INSERT_API_KEY_HERE}'
}


r1 = requests.post('https://api.github.com/repos/{INSERT_NAME_OF_OWNER}/{INSERT_NAME_OF_REPO}/issues', headers = headers, json = {
    'title': 'this is a test',
    'body': 'this is a body',
})
print(r1.status_code)


r2 = requests.patch(json.loads(r1.text)['url'], headers = headers, json = {
    'state': 'closed',
})
print(r2.status_code)


r3 = requests.post('https://api.github.com/repos/{INSERT_NAME_OF_OWNER}/{INSERT_NAME_OF_REPO}/pulls', headers = headers, json = {
    'title': 'this is a test',
    'body': 'this is a body',
    'head': 'main',
    'base': {INSERT_NAME_OF_A_BRANCH},
})
print(r3.status_code)


r4 = requests.patch(json.loads(r3.text)['url'], headers = headers, json = {
    'state': 'closed',
})
print(r4.status_code)