# Forgejo Helpers

Setup:

```bash
git clone https://git.agaric.com/agaric/forgejo_helpers.git
cd forgejo_helpers
cp .env.example .env
```

Set your instance URL there and your API token (with permission to read and write issues at least).

## Import issues

Put your issues in a CSV with the title as the first column.  Include a column label (such as "Issue") as the first row will be skipped.  No other columns from the CSV will be imported, although it should not be hard to extend this script to import a description (as first comment).  Do not include issue titles greater than 255 characters; this will result in a `KeyError: 'html_url'` that really means the server gave a 500 error.

```bash
python import_issues.py example-org example-repo stories.csv
```

## Move issues

Currently this is the only script:

[`move_issue.py`](https://git.agaric.com/agaric/forgejo_helpers/src/branch/main/move_issue.py)

Use it by passing in the source owner, the source repository, the issue number, the destination owner, and the destination repository, like so:

```bash
python move_issue.py old-example-org old-example-repo 123 new-example-org new-example-repo
```

All five parameters are needed, even if it is within the same organization.

It would be easy to change it so these could be environment variables so that only the issue number needs to be passed in, and it would be pretty easy to allow passing in a list of issues, but this has not been done yet.

It would not be too hard to allow separate source and destination instances and auth tokens, either, which could give this script a reason for being even after [#1280 - [FEAT] transfer issues to another repo - forgejo](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/1280) lands! 

Although it is probably best to prioritize bulk export and import of issues even over moving single issues, as that tests the API the best and covers the broadest use cases.

## Troubleshooting

### "The target couldn't be found."

404 errors like that probably mean the user whose API token you are using (for Agaric, we typically use tobor) does not have permission to see your repository/organization; the organization needs to be public or the user needs to be added to it.