Issuecreator NPM

A CLI tool for creating issues in your GitHub repository based on a json file.

Installation

# install the package
$ npm install -g issuecreator

# create a json file containing a list of issue objects (see example below)
$ touch issues.json

# start the cli tool
$ issuecreator <absolute-path-to-your-issues.json-file>

`issues.json` example

[
  {
    "title": "Issue 1",
    "body": "Issue description"
   },
   {
     "title": "Issue 2 (If absent, empty string is default value even though I don't know why you would leave title empty)",
     "body": "Another issue description (If absent, empty string is default value)"
    }
]

$ issuecreator /home/myusername/issues.json

Other Info

This module is created to be used globally but you can also install locally and then run node lib/index.js <issues.json absolute file path>
You need to use absolute path for your issues files for the module to work. Relative file paths won't work in most cases.
The cli tool will ask for your Github username and then the name of the repository for which the issues will be created. And finally, you need to provide a personal access token. This is only used for making the queries to the GitHub GraphQL API. Only the repo authorization is needed. You can easily create one, use for this tool and then delete it by following this guide : https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/creating-a-personal-access-token