Save github issues offline.

README.md

First install the required gems:

gem install octokit awesomeprint rainbow

Then run it to extract all of your open GitHub issues into files (with comments).

ruby my-gh-issues.rb

Take a look at the issue directory for all issues. Pass specific repositories to only pull those issues.

ruby my-gh-issues.rb cancan railscasts

Note, you may get a 403 error if you have a lot of issues. I'm guessing this is because GitHub is throttling how many requests you can send. Just run the script again and it will skip over the already pulled issues.

Special thanks to the creator of this original gist and the authors of the gems.

my-gh-issues.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

#
# A quick script to dump an overview of all the open issues in all my github projects
#

require 'fileutils'
require 'octokit'
require 'awesome_print'
require 'rainbow'

repos = $*

options = {
  :login => %x[ git config --get github.user ].strip,
  :oauth_token => %x[ git config --get github.token  ].strip
}

client      = Octokit::Client.new( options )
key_width   = 15
label_color = Hash.new( :cyan )

label_color['bug']     = :red
label_color['feature'] = :green
label_color['todo']    = :blue

client.list_repos.each do |repo|
  next if repo.fork
  next unless repo.open_issues > 0
  next if repos.size > 0 && !repos.include?(repo.name)

  print "Repository : ".rjust( key_width ).foreground( :green ).bright
  puts  repo.name
  FileUtils.mkdir_p("issues/#{repo.name}") unless File.exist? "issues/#{repo.name}"

  print "Issue Count : ".rjust( key_width ).foreground( :yellow ).bright
  puts  repo.open_issues

  client.issues( repo.full_name ).each do |issue|
    print ("%3d : " % issue.number).rjust( key_width).foreground( :white ).bright
    labels = []
    unless issue.labels.empty?
      issue.labels.each do |l|
        labels << l.name.foreground( label_color[l] ).bright
      end
    end
    print labels.join(' ') + " "
    puts issue.title
    path = "issues/#{repo.name}/issue-#{issue.number}.txt"
    unless File.exist? path
      File.open(path, "w") do |f|
        comments = client.issue_comments(repo.full_name, issue.number)
        f.puts "\##{issue.number} #{issue.title}"
        f.puts "By #{issue.user.login} on #{issue.created_at}"
        f.puts "Labels: #{issue.labels.join(" ")}" unless issue.labels.empty?
        f.puts
        f.puts issue.body
        f.puts
        f.puts "Comments: #{comments.size}"
        comments.each do |comment|
          f.puts "--------"
          f.puts "From #{comment.user.login} on #{comment.created_at}"
          f.puts
          f.puts comment.body
          f.puts
        end
      end
    end
  end
  puts
end

How to save also closed issues?