diff --git a/.github/scripts/cghi.py b/.github/scripts/cghi.py
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+import click
+import requests
+
+def get_open_issues(repo_owner, repo_name, search_params):
+    api_url = f"https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=is:issue%20state:open%20repo:{repo_owner}/{repo_name}"
+    for search_param, param in search_params:
+        api_url += f'%20{search_param}:"{param}"'
+    print(api_url)
+    response = requests.get(api_url)
+    if response.status_code == 200:
+        data = response.json()
+        # print(data)
+        print(data["total_count"])
+    else:
+        printer(f"HTTP Error: {response.status_code}")
+        exit(1)
+
+@click.command()
+@click.argument("repo_owner")
+@click.argument("repo_name")
+@click.option(
+    "-p",
+    "--search-param",
+    "search_params",
+    type=(str, str),
+    multiple=True,
+    help='''\b
+    GitHub search filter parameters
+    e.g. `-p label "good first issue"`
+    '''
+)
+def cghi(repo_owner, repo_name, search_params):
+    """Counts the number of GitHub issues"""
+    print(search_params)
+    get_open_issues(repo_owner, repo_name, search_params)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    cghi()