Github API Get Opened Issues count

get_opened_issues.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import requests
import re

url = 'https://api.github.com/repos/<username>/<repo name>/issues'

args = {
    'access_token': '<Your Access Token Here>',
    'state': 'open',
    'per_page': 1
}

def get_opened_issues():
    r = requests.get(url, params=args)
    link = r.headers['link']
    opened_issues = re.findall('page=(\d+)>; rel="last"', link)
    return opened_issues[0]

print get_opened_issues()