Exports Issues from a specified repository to a CSV file

export-issues.py

"""
Exports Issues from a specified repository to a CSV file

Uses basic authentication (Github username + password) to retrieve Issues
from a repository that username has access to. Supports Github API v3.
"""
import csv
import requests


GITHUB_USER = ''
GITHUB_PASSWORD = ''
REPO = 'inds-inc/sendexplorer'  # format is username/repo
ISSUES_FOR_REPO_URL = 'https://api.github.com/repos/%s/issues?state=all' % REPO
AUTH = (GITHUB_USER, GITHUB_PASSWORD)

def write_issues(response):
    "output a list of issues to csv"
    if not r.status_code == 200:
        raise Exception(r.status_code)
    for issue in r.json():
        csvout.writerow([
            issue['number'], 
            issue['title'].encode('utf-8'), 
            issue['body'].encode('utf-8'), 
            issue['created_at'], 
            issue['updated_at'], 
            issue['state'],
            issue['html_url'],
            ', '. join(map(lambda l: l['name'].encode('utf8'), issue['labels']))
            ])


r = requests.get(ISSUES_FOR_REPO_URL, auth=AUTH, verify=False)
csvfile = '%s-issues.csv' % (REPO.replace('/', '-'))
csvout = csv.writer(open(csvfile, 'wb'))
csvout.writerow(('id', 'Title', 'Body', 'Created At', 'Updated At', 'State', 'Url'))
write_issues(r)

#more pages? examine the 'link' header returned
while True:
    if 'link' in r.headers:
        pages = dict(
            [(rel[6:-1], url[url.index('<')+1:-1]) for url, rel in
                [link.split(';') for link in
                    r.headers['link'].split(',')]])
        print pages['next']
        r = requests.get(pages['next'], auth=AUTH)
        write_issues(r)
        if pages['next'] == pages['last']:
            break