copy issues and comments from org1/repo1 to org2/repo2

copy.py

import requests

# GitHub personal access token
TOKEN = "your-token"

# Source and destination repositories
SOURCE_REPO = 'org1/repo1'
DEST_REPO = 'org2/repo2'

# Headers for authorization
headers = {'Authorization': f'token {TOKEN}'}

# Function to fetch comments for a specific issue from the source repo
def get_comments(issue_number):
    comments_url = f'https://api.github.com/repos/{SOURCE_REPO}/issues/{issue_number}/comments'
    response = requests.get(comments_url, headers=headers)

    # Check if the response was successful (status code 200)
    if response.status_code != 200:
        print(f"Failed to fetch comments for issue {issue_number}: {response.status_code}")
        print("Error details:", response.json())
        return []

    # Parse the JSON response
    comments = response.json()
    return comments

# Function to create comments for the specific issue in the destination repo
def create_comments(issue_number, comments):
    for comment in comments:
        comment_data = {
            'body': comment['body']
        }
        comment_url = f'https://api.github.com/repos/{DEST_REPO}/issues/{issue_number}/comments'
        response = requests.post(comment_url, headers=headers, json=comment_data)
        if response.status_code == 201:
            print(f"Comment added to issue {issue_number}!")
        else:
            print(f"Failed to add comment to issue {issue_number}")

# Fetch issues from source repo
issues_url = f'https://api.github.com/repos/{SOURCE_REPO}/issues'
issues = requests.get(issues_url, headers=headers).json()

# Debugging: print the issues to check what is being returned
print("Issues response:", issues)

# Check if the issues is a list
if isinstance(issues, list):
    # Migrate each issue to the destination repo
    for issue in issues:
        # Debugging: print each issue to check its structure
        print("Issue:", issue)

        if isinstance(issue, dict):  # Ensure we're working with a dictionary
            issue_data = {
                'title': issue['title'],
                'body': issue['body'],
                'labels': [label['name'] for label in issue['labels']],
                'assignees': [assignee['login'] for assignee in issue['assignees']],
            }

            # Create the issue in the destination repo
            create_url = f'https://api.github.com/repos/{DEST_REPO}/issues'
            response = requests.post(create_url, headers=headers, json=issue_data)

            if response.status_code == 201:
                print(f"Issue {issue['title']} migrated successfully!")
                # Get the new issue number from the response
                new_issue_number = response.json()['number']

                # Fetch the comments for the specific issue in the source repo
                comments = get_comments(issue['number'])

                # Post the comments to the new issue in the destination repo if there are any
                if comments:
                    create_comments(new_issue_number, comments)
                else:
                    print(f"No comments found for issue {issue['title']} in {SOURCE_REPO}.")
            else:
                print(f"Failed to migrate issue {issue['title']}")
        else:
            print(f"Unexpected issue format: {issue}")
else:
    print("Error: The response is not a list of issues.")