Currently working on making this scripts into a CLI tool

github label manager

Simple CLI tool to create/delete labels with GitHub Labels API.

label-manager.mov

Labels API

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/issues#labels

label data format

// label format
{
  "id": 3218144327,
  "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwzMjE4MTQ0MzI3",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/koji/frontend-tools/labels/wontfix",
  "name": "wontfix",
  "color": "ffffff",
  "default": true,
  "description": "This will not be worked on"
}

What this script can do is the below.

1. Create a single label on a specific repo
2. Create multiple labels on a specific repo
3. Delete a single label from a specific repo
4. Delete all labels from a specific repo

Requirement: Personal Token about repo

You can generate a token here.

What you will need to input

1. Operation
   0: Cancel (terminate the process)
   1: Create a single label on a specific repo
   2: Create multiple labels on a specific repo
   3: Delete a single label from a specific repo
   4: Delete all labels from a specific repo
2. Token
3. Your GitHub Id
4. Target repo name

If you want to create/delete a single label, you need to type the followings.

create

• label name
• label color (technically optional)
• label description (technically optional)

delete

• label name

In terms of multiple labels, this script is using label.js to define name, color and description. The format is very simple.
If you want to put your own labels, you will need to modify label.js file.

module.exports = Object.freeze([
  {
    name: "Type: Bug Fix",
    color: "FF8A65",
    description: "Fix features that are not working",
  },
  {
    name: "Type: Enhancement",
    color: "64B5F7",
    description: "Add new features",
  },

How to use this

clone this repo and run app.js

$ git clone https://github.com/koji/github-label-manager.git
$ cd github-label-manager

# use yarn
$ yarn # install packages
$ yarn build # compile typescript
$ yarn start # run index.js

# use pnpm
$ pnpm install
$ pnpm run build
$ pnpm start

# use npm
$ npm install
$ npm run build
$ npm start

# or use ts-node
$ npx ts-node src/index.ts # this might be slow

After execute the command, you will need to type some information.

• GitHub personal token
• GitHub id
• Target repo name
• new label name (when you seslect create a label)
• label name you want to delete (when you seslect delete a label)

create labels is based on labels in src/constant.ts
https://github.com/koji/github-label-manager/blob/main/src/constant.ts#L59-L208

{
  name: 'Type: Bug Fix',
  color: 'FF8A65',
  description: 'Fix features that are not working',
},
{
  name: 'Type: Enhancement',
  color: '64B5F7',
  description: 'Add new features',
},

label-manager.mov

Article

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/create-github-labels-from-terminal-158d4868fab
https://seantrane.com/posts/logical-colorful-github-labels-18230/