Gets a random issue from a GitHub repo

random-issue.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Parse command line arguments
for i in "$@"
do
case $i in
    --repo=*)
    REPO="${i#*=}"
    shift
    ;;
    *)
    # unknown option
    ;;
esac
done

# Check if repo was provided
if [ -z "$REPO" ]
then
    echo "Error: No repository provided. Use --repo=\"https://github.com/user/repo\""
    exit 1
fi

# Extract user and repo from URL
USER_REPO=$(echo $REPO | awk -F'https://github.com/' '{print $2}')

# Fetch issues from repository
ISSUES=$(gh issue list -R $USER_REPO)

# Check if there are any issues
if [ -z "$ISSUES" ]
then
    echo "No issues found in repository $REPO"
    exit 1
fi

# Select random issue
RANDOM_ISSUE=$(echo "$ISSUES" | shuf -n 1)

# Extract issue number
ISSUE_NUMBER=$(echo $RANDOM_ISSUE | awk '{print $1}')

# Output URL of random issue
echo "https://github.com/$USER_REPO/issues/$ISSUE_NUMBER"