isabella232 / gh-issues

Batch close github issues.

Batch Github Issue Closer

We had an unusual need. 1000s of issues we wanted to close on our issue tracker. So I wrote this code to do that. I talked about this project in a blog post, so if you're wondering more about the reasoning that's the place to look.

list.js asks github for every issue that's open, has no assignee and no milestone and generates issue-list.ndjson and pr-list.ndjson from that. These are newline delimited JSON files.

Each of support-issues.js, unlabeled-issues.js, old-issues.js read issue-list.ndjson and print out issue ids of issues that meet our closing criteria.

Finally, close-issues.js takes a label name and a message file, and reading a list of ids from standard input closes each issue, labels it and adds a comment with the contents of the message file.

Currently close-issues.js waits four seconds after labeling the issue, four after adding a comment and four after closing the issue. These delays are necessary to avoid Github's undocumented abuse filters for actions that trigger notifications.