The GitHub issues REST endpoint returns pull requests as well, and there is no filter to exclude them

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In GitHub's data model every pull request is also an issue, so 'GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues' returns both. There is no query parameter to ask for issues only. Any script that counts open issues or exports them will silently over-report by the number of open pull requests.

The documented discriminator is the presence of a 'pull_request' key on the returned object; issues that are not pull requests omit it entirely. Filter client side on that key rather than on the html_url path segment, which is easier to get wrong.

The inverse also holds: the pulls endpoint returns only pull requests, but the fields differ from the issues representation, and comments live in two places. Review comments attached to lines of a diff are under the pulls review-comments endpoints, while conversation comments are under the issues comments endpoints for the same number. Fetching only one of the two and calling it 'all comments' is a common bug in migration and reporting scripts.

Source: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/issues/issues

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