A simple script to dump issues with a given label from Github repo to markdown

get_github_issues.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""A simple script to pull issues from Github and format them as Markdown - writes to stdout"""

from urllib3 import PoolManager, disable_warnings
from base64 import b64encode
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from jq import jq

disable_warnings()


def init_args():
    parser = ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("repo")
    parser.add_argument("username")
    parser.add_argument("password")
    parser.add_argument("label")

    return parser.parse_args()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    http = PoolManager()
    args = init_args()

    response = http.urlopen(
        'GET', args.repo,
        headers={'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % b64encode(('%s:%s' % (args.username, args.password))
                                                         .encode()).decode('utf-8'),
                 'User-Agent': 'python'})

    if response.status == 200:
        issues = jq('select(.[].labels[].name == "%s")' % args.label).transform(text=response.data.decode('utf-8'))

        for issue in sorted(issues, key=lambda k: k['number']):
            print("## #%s: %s" % (issue["number"], issue["title"]))
            print()

            for line in issue["body"].split("\n"):
                print(line)

            print()