a quick script I wrote to export GH-issues to json files..

gh-issue-export.js

var sys = require("sys");
var fs = require('fs');
var GitHubApi = require("./github").GitHubApi;

var githubAPI = new GitHubApi(true);
var issuesAPI = githubAPI.getIssueApi();

username = "repoUsername";
repo = "repoName";
var i = 0;

["open", "closed"].forEach(function(state) {
  issuesAPI.getList(username, repo, state, function(err, issues) {
    issues.forEach(function(issue) {
      var getComments = function(err, comments) {
            // limit exceeded bs
            if (err) {
              setTimeout(function() {
                issuesAPI.getComments(username, repo, issue.number, getComments);
              }, 2500 + (issue.number * 15));
              return;
            }
            issue.comments = comments;

            JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(issue));
            console.log(++i);

            // write data to file
            fs.writeFile(issue.number+".json", JSON.stringify(issue), function(err) {
                if(err) {
                    sys.puts(err);
                } else {
                    sys.puts("Issue "+ issue.number +" was saved!");
                }
            });
      };

      issuesAPI.getComments(username, repo, issue.number, getComments);
    });
  });
});