Send to user to create a new GitHub problem with pre-populated error data

Question

I would like my program to allow users to easily download errors with the same useful information for me as with their problem.

When the user clicks the "Report a bug" button, the browser will open, say, github.com/noamraph/dreampie/issues/new with information about their environment pre-filled.

Can this be done through GitHub?

Answer 1

You can use vars for this.

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/new?title=foo&body=bar 

Answer 2

This is possible, and you can even get your users to write an error directly from the application if you want to use the GitHub API.

Instead of opening a new tab or window, open it in your own application and send through it, collecting the necessary data and the generated logdump.

Through the GitHub API, you can create a problem and pre-fill the title and text with what you need to know.

Then return the response from the successful creation and notify yourself. Or browse the “Problems” tab in your repo, as usual, after you create it.