Shell script to set up a GitHub Project's Issues' Labels as described in <http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/252878320/my-lighthouse-ticket-settings-with-colors>. WARNING: script assumes a newish project that hasn't really used labels yet. It deletes all default labels, which means DATA LOSS if you've used them for anything.

setup github issues labels.sh

USER=rentzsch
PASS=mypassword
REPO=mogenerator

# Delete default labels
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request DELETE "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels/bug"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request DELETE "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels/duplicate"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request DELETE "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels/enhancement"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request DELETE "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels/invalid"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request DELETE "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels/question"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request DELETE "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels/wontfix"

# Create labels
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request POST --data '{"name":"accepted","color":"66aa00"}' "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request POST --data '{"name":"reproduced","color":"006600"}' "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request POST --data '{"name":"cantreproduce","color":"996361"}' "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request POST --data '{"name":"fixcommitted","color":"003B84"}' "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request POST --data '{"name":"bluesky","color":"66ccff"}' "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request POST --data '{"name":"duplicate","color":"aaaaaa"}' "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request POST --data '{"name":"declined","color":"83000C"}' "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request POST --data '{"name":"new","color":"ff1177"}' "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request POST --data '{"name":"fixreleased","color":"3f3f3f"}' "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request POST --data '{"name":"resolved","color":"3f3f3f"}' "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels"
curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request POST --data '{"name":"wishlist","color":"66Aa00"}' "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels"

Thanks for this gist!

You can check out my fork. Modified the script a bit so that it reads the variables. And I separated the GitHub user from the repo's primary user (I needed this for repos owned by organizations).

Hello! What is the license applied to this Gist? Looking to give attribution. Thanks!

Huge thanks for this, made implementing this in our scaffolding bash script much easier! 👍

@hyubs I get error while running this
git-labels.sh: 5: read: Illegal option -s

Guys, check out my for of this one with some sensible defaults https://github.com/integratedexperts/github-labels