From 236fb383892df067e31bc0243a26d65e181eac98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Mancuso <nicholas.mancuso13@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 08:26:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] minor: start issue fetching

---
 github-api/fetch_issues.py | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+)

diff --git a/github-api/fetch_issues.py b/github-api/fetch_issues.py
index e69de29..ab2f182 100644
--- a/github-api/fetch_issues.py
+++ b/github-api/fetch_issues.py
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+import requests
+import json
+
+# Replace with your own GitHub repository details
+owner = 'checkstyle'
+repo = 'checkstyle'
+# Number of issues per page (max 100)
+per_page = 30
+# Starting page
+page = 1
+# Label to filter issues
+label = 'your-label'
+
+# Optional: If you want to use authentication (recommended for higher rate limits)
+# Create a GitHub personal access token at https://github.com/settings/tokens
+token = 'your-github-personal-access-token'
+
+headers = {
+    # Authorization header with personal access token
+    # 'Authorization': f'token {token}'
+}
+
+
+# Function to fetch issues from GitHub
+def fetch_issues(repo_owner, repo_name, issues_per_page, start_page, filter_label):
+    issues_json_pages = []
+    current_page = start_page
+    while True:
+        url = f'https://api.github.com/repos/{repo_owner}/{repo_name}/issues'
+        params = {
+            # State of issues ('open', 'closed', or 'all')
+            'state': 'all',
+            # Number of issues per page
+            'per_page': issues_per_page,
+            # Current page number
+            'page': current_page,
+            # Filter by label
+            # 'labels': filter_label
+            'pulls': 'false'
+        }
+        response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
+        # log response
+        print(f'response json: {json.dumps(response.json(), indent=2)}')
+        if response.status_code != 200:
+            # Print an error message if the request fails
+            print(f"Failed to fetch issues: {response.status_code}")
+            break
+        page_issues = response.json()
+        if not page_issues:
+            # Break the loop if there are no more issues
+            break
+        # Extend the issues list with the issues from the current page
+        issues_json_pages.extend(page_issues)
+        # Move to the next page
+        current_page += 1
+    return issues_json_pages
+
+
+# Fetch the issues
+issues = fetch_issues(owner, repo, per_page, page, label)
+
+# Print the issues in JSON format
+print(json.dumps(issues, indent=2))