Empty a GitHub repo from issues using a headless Firefox browser

delete_gh_issues.py

"""
Selenium script to recursively delete issues from a GH repo

WARNING: this WILL delete all an issues repos indiscriminately. DO NOT USE ON PRODUCTION REPOS!

TODO:
  - Script only does one page at a time. It should be run after a page has been emptied out

Usage:
    # Make a Firefox profile that is logged-in to GitHub
    $ python3 -m pip install selenium

    # Change hard-coded constants (The ones in CAPS)
    $ python3 delete_gh_issues.py
"""

import os
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options

# User must be logged in to GitHub with this profile for things to work
# For MacOS: this path is usually in /Users/lovely/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<somehex>.default
FIREFOX_PROFILE_PATH = ""
# Get this from `brew info geckodriver`
GECKODRIVER_PATH = ""

# Link to the repo (don't include '/issues')
GH_REPO_ISSUES_LINK = ""


def delete_issue(driver, title, link):
    print("Deleting issue [{}] with link [{}]".format(title, link))
    driver.get(link)

    elements = driver.find_elements_by_xpath(
        "//details[@class='details-reset details-overlay details-overlay-dark']")

    delete_issue_elem = elements[-1]
    delete_issue_elem.click()

    element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@name='verify_delete']")
    element.click()

    print("Done")
    time.sleep(.5)


def loop_through_issues(driver):
    while True:
        issue_container = driver.find_element_by_xpath(
            "//div[@class='js-navigation-container js-active-navigation-container']")

        issue_elem = issue_container.find_element_by_xpath(
            "//a[@data-hovercard-type='issue']")

        link = issue_elem.get_attribute("href")
        delete_issue(driver, issue_elem.text, link)


def main():
    try:
        options = Options()
        options.headless = True
        profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile(FIREFOX_PROFILE_PATH)
        driver = webdriver.Firefox(
            firefox_profile=profile, options=options, executable_path=os.path.abspath(GECKODRIVER_PATH))

        driver.get("{}/issues".format(GH_REPO_ISSUES_LINK))

        loop_through_issues(driver)

    except Exception as e:
        print(e)
        driver.quit()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()