Simple way to export all issues from a github repo using token authentication

github-issue-export.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Simple script to pull all issues from a github repo.
# Simply create an authentication token in github
# Then set the environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN to that
# then run the script passing the <owner>/<repo> as the one and only parameter
# output will be in JSON form. From there you can use jq - https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
# For example: cat file.json| jq '.[] | .user.login, .title, .body' etc.
# requires octokit and json module

require "octokit"
require "json"

repo = ARGV[0]

if not repo
    puts "error: must provide the owner/repo as argument"
    exit 1
end

client = Octokit::Client.new(:access_token => ENV["GITHUB_TOKEN"])

# some of the Sawyer objects don't resolve completely. This is a poor mans way to converting
# the necessary ones
def convert_to_object(o)
    if o.user then
        o.user = o.user.to_hash
    end
    if o.assignee then
        o.assignee = o.assignee.to_hash
    end
    if o.labels then
        o.labels.each_with_index do |val,index|
            o.labels[index] = val.to_hash
        end
    end
    if o.pull_request then
        o.pull_request = o.pull_request.to_hash
    end
    return o.to_hash
end

user = client.user
user.login

client.auto_paginate = true
issues = client.issues repo, { :state => 'all' }
puts "["
issues.each_with_index  { |issue,index|
    issue.comments = []
    client.issue_comments(repo, issue.number).each do |comment|
        comment = (comment)
        issue.comments.push convert_to_object(comment)
    end
    issue.user = issue.user.to_hash
    puts convert_to_object(issue).to_json
    if index != issues.size - 1
        puts ","
    end
}
puts "]"