Add open issues of a repository to a ProjectV2 organization project using gh cli

add-issues-to-project-v2.sh

#!/bin/bash
# This script will add the first 500 open issues of a repository to a ProjectV2 organization project.

set -e

# Only needed the first time
gh auth refresh --scopes project,repo

repository_name='<org>/<repo>'
project_org='<org>'
project_number=<project_number>

echo "Getting node id for project $project_org/$project_number"
project_node_id=$(gh api graphql -f query="
  query{
    organization(login: \"$project_org\"){
      projectV2(number: $project_number) {
        id
      }
    }
  }" --jq '.data.organization.projectV2.id')
echo "Node ID: $project_node_id"

echo "Getting all issues for $repository_name"
issueNodeIds=$(gh issue list -R $repository_name -L 500 --json "id" --jq ".[].id")

for issueNodeId in $issueNodeIds; do
  echo "Adding issue $issueNodeId to project $project_org/$project_number"
  gh api graphql -f query="
  mutation {
    addProjectV2ItemById(input: {projectId: \"$project_node_id\" contentId: \"$issueNodeId\"}) {
      item {
        id
      }
    }
  }"
done

echo "Done"