Content Comparison

Way to pull data

Using Organization data export and API

Details

We can use best of the above two approaches to get the work done. In this approach we can export the organization data using the manual exports (or organization migration api) to get hold of the attachments attached to issues(we cannot get attachments using apis) and then fetch the other information about the organization like repositories, issues, comments, labels, milstonesmilestones, releases, projects etc using the relevant github apis

Pros

We can download all the data for an organization using this approach

Cons

Export option in github UI for any user account does not give the ability to export organization data. It only allows us to download the data which is belongs to that account and not to any organization.
We may have to use Github’s Async organization migration API to get around this problem

High level steps for pulling the data

• Export the organization data using Either UI or organization migration api (for attachments)
  POST /orgs/:org/migrations - to start the process of generating the organization data
  GET /orgs/:org/migrations/:migrationId - to check the status of migration process
  GET /orgs/:org/migrations/:migrationId/archive - to download the compressed file with organization data and attachments

• Us the Github api to pull the data for other entities(repositories, issues, comments, projects, milestones, labels)