What is the best strategy to extract information from a Github issue?

Question

This is the same question as this one, but for Github instead of JIRA

Hi,

I'm developing FreedomSponsors - a crowdfunding platform for open source projects.

I want to improve the "Sponsor new issue" screen by pre-filling some information, based on the issue's URL.

My next "target" is the Github issue tracking system.

Given a URL like https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/14, What's the best way to extract information like:

• 1: issue key: 14
• 2: project issue tracker URL: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues
• 3: project title: www.gittip.com

(ok, these are easy, it's all in the URL) and

• 4: issue title: pay with bitcoin, litecoin

I'm using python

Answer 1

Github has an API for issues, thats going to be your best bet.

http://developer.github.com/v3/issues/