GitHub to JIRA issue exporting utility

As of version 8.4 discontinued support for GitHub issues importing. The following tools download issues using GitHub API 3.0, parse them and convert them to a JIRA readible CSV file for External issues import.

Downloading issues from GitHub

The download_issues.sh BASH script downloads issues from a selected GitHub repository and stores them in a JSON file

Setting up OAuth token based authentication

GitHub authentication is performed using GitHub OAuth tokens. A base64 encoded token has to be stored in the .token file stored in the same directory as the script.

Once you have your GitHub OAuth token, you can store it in the .token file in the following manner

$ echo "<OAuth token literal>" | base64 > .token

Usage

To download the issues from a repository say my-repo, you do

$ ./download_issues.sh my-repo

This will attempt to download the issues using curl and store then in my-repo.json. The file is properly formatted and ready for conversion to CSV for JIRA

Converting the downloaded JSON file to CSV

The gh_issues_to_csv.py Python script parses JSON files produced by download_issues.sh and formats them in CSV format

Usage

Following the example used in previous section, you convert my-repo.json file to a CSV as follows

$ gh_issues_to_csv.py ./my-repo.json

This will produce output.csv file, which is ready for JIRA issues import.