Script to submit a list of issues to GH that have been collected in a single text file

submit_gh_issues.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Submit a list of issues to GH

Issues are separated by two blank lines (three newline characters)
The first line is used as the title
"""

# py2/3 compat
from __future__ import print_function
try:
    input = raw_input
except NameError:
    pass

import json
import requests

TOKEN = 'YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN'

USAGE = "submit_gh_issues.py <issues.txt> <owner> <repo>"

URL_TMPL = 'https://api.github.com/repos/{}/{}/issues?access_token=' + TOKEN

def main(args):
    if len(args) != 3:
        print(USAGE)
        return
    issues_filename, owner, repo = args
    issues = open(issues_filename).read().split('\n\n\n')
    print('submitting {} issues to {}/{}'.format(len(issues), owner, repo))
    url = URL_TMPL.format(owner, repo)
    for issue in issues:
        print(issue)
        sections = issue.split('\n\n', 1)
        title = sections.pop(0)
        try:
            body = sections.pop()
        except IndexError:
            body = ''
        payload = {'title': title, 'body': body}
        print(payload)
        if input('submit issue? [yN]  ').lower() == 'y':
            r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload))
            print(r.json()['html_url'])
            print('\n')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    main(sys.argv[1:])

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