Export GitHub issues to a csv file

export_github_issues.py

import csv
from github2.client import Github

# api settings for github
git_username = ''
git_api_token = ''
git_repo = ''

# csv name
csv_name = "git_hub_issues.csv"

def run_csv():
    """
    Export github issues into a csv format
    """
    output_csv = csv.writer(open(csv_name, 'wb'), delimiter=',')
    github = Github(username=git_username, api_token=git_api_token)

    # csv headers
    headers = [
        'id',
        'title',
        'body',
        'state',
        'creator',
        'labels',
        'created_at',
        'updated_at',
        'closed_at',
    ]

    # write header rows
    output_csv.writerow(headers)

    # get the git issues and write the rows to the csv
    git_issues = github.issues.list(git_repo)
    for git_issue in git_issues:
        print git_issue.title
        labels = ' '.join(git_issue.labels)

        # alot of these are blank because they are not really 
        # needed but if you need them just fill them out
        issue = [
            git_issue.number,
            git_issue.title.encode('utf8'),
            git_issue.body.encode('utf8'),
            git_issue.state, 
            git_issue.user, 
            labels,
            git_issue.created_at,
            git_issue.updated_at,
            git_issue.closed_at,
        ]
        output_csv.writerow(issue)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    run_csv()

Thanks for posting this gist. Came in handy today when I needed to produce an issues report. I forked and added an option to pull in closed issues. Cheers.

Here's a command line tool: https://github.com/gavinr/github-csv-tools