How can I export GitHub issues to Excel?

问题

How can I export all my issues from an Enterprise GitHub repository to an Excel file? I have tried searching many Stack Overflow answers but did not succeed. I tried this solution too (exporting Git issues to CSV and getting "ImportError: No module named requests" errors. Is there any tool or any easy way to export all the issues to Excel?

回答1:

To export from a private repo using curl, you can run the following:

curl -i "https://api.github.com/repos/<repo-owner>/<repo-name>/issues" -u "<user-name>"

Where the user has access to the private repo. You can then convert the resulting json into csv using any suitable converter as suggested in other answers.

Find authentication reference here.

回答2:

If that is a one-time task, you may play around with GitHub WebAPI. It allows to export the issues in JSON format. Then you can convert it to Excel (e.g. using some online converter).

Just open the following URL in a browser substituting the {owner} and {repo} with real values:

https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues?page=1&per_page=100

回答3:

The hub command-line wrapper for github makes this pretty simple.

You can do something like this:

$ hub issue -f "%t,%l%n" > list.csv

which gives you something like this

$ more issue.csv

Issue 1 title, tag1 tag2
Issue 2 title, tag3 tag2
Issue 3 title, tag1

回答4:

It is unfortunate that github.com does not make this easier.

In the mean time, if you have jq and curl, you can do this in two lines using something like the following example that outputs issue number, title and labels (tags) and works for private repos as well (if you don't want to filter by label, just remove the labels={label}& part of the url). You'll need to substitute owner, repo, label, and username:

echo "number, title,tags" > issues.csv
curl "https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues?labels={label}&page=1&per_page=100" -u "username" \
| jq -r '.[] | [.number, .title, (.labels|map(.name)|join("/"))]|@csv' >> issues.csv

Note that if your data exceeds 1 page, it may require additional calls

回答5:

I tried the methods described in other comments regarding exporting issues in JSON format. It worked ok but the formatting was somehow screwed up. Then I found in Excel help that it is able to access APIs directly and load the data from the JSON response neatly into my Excel sheets.

The Google terms I used to find the help I needed were "excel power query web.content GET json". I found a How To Excel video which helped a lot.

URL that worked in the Excel query (same as from other posts):

https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues?page=1&per_page=100

Personally, I also add the parameter &state=open, otherwise I need to request hundreds of pages. At one point I reached GitHub's limit on unauthenticated API calls/hour for my IP address.

回答6:

Export Pull Requests can export issues to a CSV file, which can be opened with Excel. It also supports GitLab and Bitbucket.

From its documentation:

Export open PRs and issues in sshaw/git-link and sshaw/itunes_store_transporter:

epr sshaw/git-link sshaw/itunes_store_transporter > pr.csv

Export open pull request not created by sshaw in padrino/padrino-framework:

epr -x pr -c '!sshaw' padrino/padrino-framework > pr.csv

It has several options for filtering what gets exported.

回答7:

I have tinkered with this for quite some time and found that Power BI is a good way of keeping the data up to date in the spreadsheet. I had to look into Power BI a little to make this work, because getting the right info out of the structured JSON fields, and collapsing lists into concatenated strings, especially for labels, wasn't super intuitive. But this Power BI query works well for me by removing all the noise and getting relevant info into an easily digestible format that can be reviewed with stakeholders:

let
    MyJsonRecord = Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://api.github.com/repos/<your org>/<your repo>/issues?&per_page=100&page=1&state=open&filter=all", [Headers=[Authorization="Basic <your auth token>", Accept="application/vnd.github.symmetra-preview+json"]])),
    MyJsonTable = Table.FromRecords(MyJsonRecord),
    #"Column selection" = Table.SelectColumns(MyJsonTable,{"number", "title", "user", "labels", "state", "assignee", "assignees", "comments", "created_at", "updated_at", "closed_at", "body"}),
    #"Expanded labels" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Column selection", "labels"),
    #"Expanded labels1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded labels", "labels", {"name"}, {"labels.name"}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Expanded labels1", {"number","title", "user", "state", "assignee", "assignees", "comments", "created_at", "updated_at", "closed_at", "body"}, {{"Label", each Text.Combine([labels.name],","), type text}}),
    #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Grouped Rows",{"number", "title", "state", "assignee", "comments", "created_at", "updated_at", "closed_at", "body", "Label"}),
    #"Expanded assignee" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "assignee", {"login"}, {"assignee.login"})
in
    #"Expanded assignee"

I added and then removed columns in this and did not clean this up - feel free to do that before you use it. Obviously, you also have to fill in your own organization name and repo name into the URL, and obtain the auth token. I have tested the URL with a Chrome REST plugin and got the token from entering the user and api key there. You can authenticate explicitly from Excel with the user and key if you don't want to deal with the token. I just find it simpler to go the anonymous route in the query setup and instead provide the readily formatted request header.

Also, this works for repos with up to 100 open issues. If you have more, you need to duplicate the query (for page 2 etc) and combine the results.

Steps for using this query:

• in a new sheet, on the "Data" tab, open the "Get Data" drop-down
• select "Launch Power Query Editor"
• in the editor, choose "New Query", "Other Sources", "Blank query"
• now you click on "Advanced Editor" and paste the above query
• click the "Done" button on the Advanced Editor, then "Close and Load" from the tool bar
• the issues are loading in your spreadsheet and you are in business
• no crappy third-party tool needed

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41369365/how-can-i-export-github-issues-to-excel