github_tasks_macro.js

module.exports = async (params) => {
    const {app} = params;
    let file = app.workspace.getMostRecentLeaf()?.view?.file;
    if (!file) {
        return;
    }
    let frontmatter = app.metadataCache.getFileCache(file)?.frontmatter;
    let repo = frontmatter["gh-repo"]
    if (!repo) {
        return;
    }
    const url = `https://api.github.com/repos/${repo}/issues` 
    const text = await request({ url, method: "GET" });
    let issues = null;
    try {
        issues = JSON.parse(text)
    } catch (e) {
        return;
    }
    let fileContent = await app.vault.cachedRead(file)

    const marker = (number) => `gh${number}`
    return issues
        .filter(issue => fileContent.indexOf(marker(issue.number)) === -1)
        .map(issue => `- [ ] ([${marker(issue.number)}](${issue.html_url})) ${issue.title}`)
        .join('\n')
}

Hi! I'm trying to get this to work and I got as far as this running and outputting something in the console, but I'm not sure how to get this pasted into the currently active file with the gh-repo yaml. Can you help me out here?

You need to hook this up to the QuickAdd plugin. The documentation is kind of scattered, but I'd recommend watching the video in the README (https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd) to get an idea of how to use it. I'll post my configuration below:

In addition to adding this as a "Choice", you'll also need to download this file into your vault, and add it as a macro. QuickAdd has some documentation on how to do that.

I hope that helps @amichuda!

This was the missing step, thank you!

Wanted to leave this here in case it was interested. I adapted your code to make a general "GitHub Inbox" of all your repos that puts them in a file with headings.

https://gist.github.com/amichuda/bb5405031c302f657d0bfb950fa98a11

This is awesome, @amichuda! Thanks for sharing :D