Remove spam issues from your GitHub repo

remove_spam_issues.py

# pip install PyGithub

# This script will edit the title and body of all spam issues to "Spam", add a label "spam" to those issues
# set them as closed and lock the conversation

# Just set your GitHub Personal Access Token (Account settings > Developer settings > Personal Access tokens.
# Create a token with all the permissions for "repo" (probably the first one in the permission list)


import os
from github import Github

access_token = os.environ.get("gh_access_token")

reponame = "username/repo"

# If the spammer created spam issues #100 to #110, 
# enter 100 in spam_issue_start and 110 in spam_issue_end
spam_issue_start = # first spam ISSUE number
spam_issue_end = # last spam issue number


g = Github(access_token)
repo = g.get_repo(reponame)


def mark_spam_and_lock():

    for i in range(spam_issue_start, spam_issue_end+1):
        issue = repo.get_issue(number=i)
        issue.set_labels("spam")
        issue.edit(title="spam", body="spam", labels=["spam"], state="closed")
        issue.lock("spam")


mark_spam_and_lock()