A simple Python script that can create an issue on a specific repository. github cli github issues

make_gh_issue.py

"""
requires the "PyGitHub" package (`pip install pygithub`).
You can leave out things like an assignee, a label etc., by simply leaving them out of the code.
"""


from github import Github
import os
from pprint import pprint

token = "INSERT YOUR PERSONAL-ACCESS-TOKEN HERE"

client = Github(token)
repo = client.get_repo("USERNAME/REPONAME")
issue = repo.create_issue(
    title="TITLE OF THE ISSUE",
    body="TTEXT OF THE ISSUE",
    assignee="SOMEONE",
    labels=[
        repo.get_label("SOME LABEL")
    ]
)

pprint(issue)