Avaliable to clone labels between repositories

[JingHai-Lingyun]

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Configuration same issues labels in two(or more) repos are troublesome and boring.
Is that avaliable to add a new feature call "Label Clone" to let user can clone labels into a new repo that they have permission?

[mickeygousset]

For new repos:

Create a repository template that already has all your labels defined. Then, when you create a new repo using that template, the labels will be there.

For existing repos:

If you wanted to replicate the labels from on repository to another, you could use the rest apis. Do something like this (NOTE: I have not run this code, thanks GitHub Copilot!):

Get the labels from the source repo:

curl -s -H "Authorization: token your_token" https://api.github.com/repos/source_owner/source_repo/labels > labels.json

Run this shell script to take the labels from the source and create them in the target:

for row in $(cat labels.json | jq -r '.[] | @base64'); do
    name=$(echo ${row} | base64 --decode | jq -r '.name')
    color=$(echo ${row} | base64 --decode | jq -r '.color')
    description=$(echo ${row} | base64 --decode | jq -r '.description')

    curl -X POST -H "Authorization: token your_token" \
        -d "{\"name\":\"$name\", \"color\":\"$color\", \"description\":\"$description\"}" \
        https://api.github.com/repos/target_owner/target_repo/labels
done

If you prefer, you could also use the GitHub CLI, it makes it a little cleaner:

gh api repos/source_owner/source_repo/labels > labels.json

for row in $(cat labels.json | jq -r '.[] | @base64'); do
    name=$(echo ${row} | base64 --decode | jq -r '.name')
    color=$(echo ${row} | base64 --decode | jq -r '.color')
    description=$(echo ${row} | base64 --decode | jq -r '.description')

    gh api -X POST /repos/target_owner/target_repo/labels -f name="$name" -f color="$color" -f description="$description"
done

[JingHai-Lingyun]

Which token permission(s) is required?

[mickeygousset]

repo scope should work

[JingHai-Lingyun]

I try it, and work successfully.
Thanks for help.