This bash script checks if some issues of a Github repo has been there without comments in more than 30 minutes.

check_late_response_to_issues.sh

project="wangkuiyi/mapreduce-lite"
if [[ $# -ne 0 ]]; then
   project=$1
fi

issues_per_page=25
page=1
until [ $issues_per_page -lt 25 ]; do
    echo Parsing page: $page >&2

    url=$(printf 'https://github.com/%s/issues?page=%d' $project $page)
    url=$url+'&q=is%3Aissue'

    echo $url >&2

    issues_per_page=$(curl -s "$url" | grep "<a href=\"/$project/issues/" | grep 'class="link-gray-dark' | sed "s/^.*issues\/\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/" | tee issues.cache | wc -l)
    if [[ $issues_per_page -eq 0 ]]; then
	echo "Waiting for a while before retry talking to Github.com ..." >&2
        sleep 61
	issues_per_page=$(curl -s "$url" | grep "<a href=\"/$project/issues/" | grep 'class="link-gray-dark' | sed "s/^.*issues\/\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/" | tee issues.cache | wc -l)
    fi

    echo issues per page: $issues_per_page >&2
    let page=page+1

    for issue in $(cat issues.cache); do
	issue_url=$(printf 'https://github.com/%s/issues/%d' $project $issue)
	comments_per_issue=$(curl -s $issue_url | grep -A 3 "commented" | grep 'relative-time' | sed "s/^.*datetime=\"\([^Z]*\).*$/\1/" | tee comments.cache | wc -l)
	if [[ $comments_per_issue -eq 1 ]]; then
	    current_sec=$(date +%s)
	    comment_time=$(head -n1 comments.cache)
	    comment_sec=$(date -j -f "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" $comment_time +%s)
	    diff_sec=$(expr $current_sec - $comment_sec)
	    comment_day=$(date -j -f "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" $comment_time +%a)
	    if [[ $diff_sec -gt 1800 ]]; then
		echo "It has been $(expr $diff_sec / 3600) hours since $issue_url was filed at $comment_time $comment_day"
	    fi
	fi
    done

    sleep 2 # work around the Github abuse detection mechanism.
done

#!/bin/bash
project="wangkuiyi/mapreduce-lite"
if [[ $# -ne 0 ]]; then
   project=$1
fi

issues_per_page=25
page=1
until [ $issues_per_page -lt 25 ]; do
    echo Parsing page: $page >&2

    url=$(printf 'https://github.com/%s/issues?page=%d' $project $page)
    url=$url+'&q=is%3Aissue'

    echo $url >&2

    issues_per_page=$(curl -s "$url" | grep "<a href=\"/$project/issues/" | grep 'class="link-gray-dark' | sed "s/^.*issues\/\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/" | tee issues.cache | wc -l)
    if [[ $issues_per_page -eq 0 ]]; then
	echo "Waiting for a while before retry talking to Github.com ..." >&2
        sleep 61
	issues_per_page=$(curl -s "$url" | grep "<a href=\"/$project/issues/" | grep 'class="link-gray-dark' | sed "s/^.*issues\/\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/" | tee issues.cache | wc -l)
    fi

    echo issues per page: $issues_per_page >&2
    let page=page+1

    for issue in $(cat issues.cache); do
	issue_url=$(printf 'https://github.com/%s/issues/%d' $project $issue)
	curl -s $issue_url > issue_page.cache
	comments_per_issue=$(cat issue_page.cache | grep -A 3 "commented" | grep 'relative-time' | sed "s/^.*datetime=\"\([^Z]*\).*$/\1/" | tee comments.cache | wc -l)
	author=$(cat issue_page.cache | grep  "class=\"author\">"| head -n 1 | sed "s/^.*class=\"author\">\([^Z]*\)\<\/a.*\$/\1/")
	state=$(cat issue_page.cache  | grep state | head -n 1| sed 's/.*"state state-\([^Z]*\)".*/\1/')
	if [[ $comments_per_issue -eq 1 ]]; then
	    current_sec=$(date +%s)
	    comment_time=$(head -n1 comments.cache)
	    comment_sec=$(date -j -f "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" $comment_time +%s)
	    diff_sec=$(expr $current_sec - $comment_sec)
	    comment_day=$(date -j -f "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" $comment_time +%a)
	    if [[ $diff_sec -gt 1800 ]]; then
		echo "It has been $(expr $diff_sec / 3600) hours since $issue_url was filed by $author at $comment_time $comment_day, state $state"
	    fi
	fi
    done

    sleep 2 # work around the Github abuse detection mechanism.
done

Add author and state in log.