Submit A Github Issue using API V3 and Python's requests lib

github_report_issue.py

import json

import requests  # pip install requests


def report(args):
    username = "github username"
    bot_repo = "bot repository name (on username's account)"
    github_token = "github token obtained from https://github.com/settings/tokens with scopes"
    reporter = "user reporting issue"
    channel = "#channel name"
    description = unicode(args[0])  # python 2.7-safe user input
    with requests.Session() as session:
        session.auth = (username, github_token)
        url = (
            "https://api.github.com/repos/" + username + "/" + bot_repo +
            "/issues")
        headers = {
            "Content-Type": "application/json",
            "Authorization": "token " + github_token,
        }
        params = {
            "title": channel + ": " + reporter,
            "assignee": username,
            "body": reporter + " reports \"" + description + "\" in " + channel
        }
        resp = session.post(url=url, json=params, headers=headers)
        data = json.loads(resp.content)
        issue_number = data["number"]
        issue_url = data["html_url"]
        message = (
            "Issue #" + str(issue_number) + " created and is visible at " +
            issue_url)
        return message