Export GitHub issues of a single repository (including comments) to JSON file

export_github_issues.py

import requests
import json


GITHUB_USER = ''
GITHUB_PASSWORD = ''
REPO = ''  # format is username/repo


ISSUES_FOR_REPO_URL = 'https://api.github.com/repos/%s/issues?state=all' % REPO
AUTH = (GITHUB_USER, GITHUB_PASSWORD)

all_issues = []

def write_issues(r):
    if not r.status_code == 200:
        raise Exception(r.status_code)
    for issue in r.json():
        if issue['comments'] > 0:
            comments = get_comments(issue['comments_url'])
            issue['comments_inline'] = comments
        all_issues.append(issue)
    if 'link' in r.headers:
        pages = dict(
            [(rel[6:-1], url[url.index('<')+1:-1]) for url, rel in
                [link.split(';') for link in
                    r.headers['link'].split(',')]])
        if 'next' in pages:
            write_issues(requests.get(pages['next'], auth=AUTH))

def get_comments(url):
    r = requests.get(url, auth=AUTH)
    if 'link' in r.headers:
        raise Exception('Paging not supported for comments download')
    return r.json()



write_issues(requests.get(ISSUES_FOR_REPO_URL, auth=AUTH))

print json.dumps(all_issues, sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(',', ': '))