Creating GitHub issues with CSV using GitHub CLI

This is a sample script to create GitHub issues with CSV using GitHub CLI.

Requirements

• Python 3.9
• GitHub CLI

No PyPI package is required.

Usage

Edit create_github_issues_with_csv.py and change REPO, PROJECT and DATA.

REPO = "[owner]/[repo]"
PROJECT = "[projectname]"
DATA = """
Milestone 1,Task 1
Milestone 1,Task 2
Milestone 1,Task 3
Milestone 2,Task 4
Milestone 2,Task 5
"""

Run the script.

python create_github_issues_with_csv.py

Other options

There are some other options to create many issues easily.

PyGithub

Create issue | Issues — PyGithub 1 documentation

from github import Github

issues = ...

g = Github("access_token")
repo = g.get_repo("[owner]/[repo]")

for issue in issues:
    repo.create_issue(title=issue.title)

GitHub CSV Tools

https://github.com/gavinr/github-csv-tools

githubCsvTools myFile.csv