save-github-issues

This Perl program can automatically create a database of repository issues for backup purposes, since Github currently does not provide that functionality.

Required Perl Modules

1. common::sense
2. DBI
3. DBD::SQLite
4. LWP::UserAgent
5. JSON

The program also requires SQLite.

Usage

The program accepts the following arguments:

1. --user: Required. This is the user whose owns the repositories you want issues from.

2. --repo: This names the repository whose issues you want to save. This option may appear multiple times. It is optional. If you do not provide any --repo option then the program will download the issues for every repository the user owns.

An example:

$ ./save-github-issues.pl --user ejmr --repo php-mode --repo bbcode-mode
Saving issues for user ejmr

Saving issues for php-mode
Saving issues for bbcode-mode

This creates a files called issues.sqlite in the current directory. It is a database with the following columns:

1. url: The URL to the issue on Github.

2. title: The name of the issue.

3. type: A string indicating if the issue is ‘opened’ or ‘closed’, and so on.

4. json: A long string of the raw JSON which Github returns. This is useful so you have a complete backup of all of the information which the Github API provides.

Future Plans

I am investigating the possibility of extending this program to import issues into other project hosting sites such as Bitbucket. This way developers will be able to transfer their issues from one hosting site to another. This will include support to also import issues into Github itself, in the event that the user exported the issues from a different host.

License

GNU General Public License Version 3