export issues for a GitHub repo

issues_exporter.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Usage:
# ruby issues_exporter.rb > exported_repo.yml

# Settings:
user = 'retrospring'
repo = 'bugs'
username = 'your-oauth-token-here' # see https://github.com/settings/applications#personal-access-tokens

require 'httparty'
require 'json'
require 'yaml'

issues_url = "https://api.github.com/repos/#{user}/#{repo}/issues"
issues = []
cur_id = 1

loop do
  STDERR.print "fetching #{cur_id}... "
  issue = JSON.parse(HTTParty.get(issues_url + "/#{cur_id}", basic_auth: { username: username, password: 'x-oauth-basic' }).body)
  if issue['message'] == "Not Found"
    STDERR.puts "not found"
    break
  end
  if issue['comments'] > 0
    STDERR.print "comments"
    issue['comment_contents'] = JSON.parse(HTTParty.get(issue['comments_url'], basic_auth: { username: username, password: 'x-oauth-basic' }).body)
  end
  issues << issue
  cur_id += 1
  STDERR.puts
end

puts issues.to_yaml