Copy all Issues and PRs for a user or organization — backup_github

To provide a backup on github failure, this function streamlines downloading all github Issues and Pull Requests of all repositories of a focal user or organization into local jsons.

Usage

backup_github_info(name, save_location, entity_type = c("user", "org"))

Arguments

name: Name of github user or organization (e.g., "cbedwards-dfw", "FRAMverse"). Character atomic.
save_location: Filepath for directory to save issue and pulls to.
entity_type: Either "user" or "org" to identify if name is describing a github user or github organization. Defaults to "user"

Value

Invisibly returns a tibble with:

$repo_name = name of repository
$full_name = full github name ({user or org}/{repo name})
$issues_path = filepath to the json of issues
$pulls_path = filepath to the json of pulls
$issues_status, $pulls_status = Did the backup work? "success" or "error"
$issues_error_msg, $pulls_error_msg = error messages on attempting to back up (NA if there was no error.)

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
## backing up all issues and PRs for repos hosted by `cbedwards-dfw`
out <- backup_github_info("cbedwards-dfw", "user", save_location = "C:/Repos/cbe_github_backups")
} # }