You make a good point about the just-move-to-Git[whatever] being the entrenched social aspect of many repos! I can't imagine if, say the day comes when developers flee GH en-masse, it will be at all easy to retain the discussion history behind repos.
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There is an API https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/
It could be not trivial to map those data into the new destination, especially if they don't have an API too.
This is how to programmatically create a new issue on GitLab https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/issues.html#new-issue and in Bitbucket https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/re...
Gitlab already support this, no need to go with home grown bit banging.
Why not just scrape the site? I don’t see what the problem is.