clone all gists and better search them with your own tools #github #gists

clone-all-gists.sh

#! /bin/bash
set -x
set -e

# generate your token from https://github.com/settings/tokens and save it into gist-token.txt
token=$(cat gist-token.txt)
function cloneOrPull() {
  page=$1
  curl -L \
    -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $token" \
    -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
    "https://api.github.com/gists?per_page=100&page=$page" > gists-${page}.json
  
  jq -c -r '.[]' gists-${page}.json | while read gist; do
    id=$(echo $gist | jq -r '.id')
    if [ -d "$id" ]; then
      cd $id; git pull > /dev/null 2>&1; cd ..
    else
      git clone $(echo $gist | jq -r '.git_pull_url') > /dev/null 2>&1
    fi
  done
  jq length gists-${page}.json
}

page=1
count=0
while true; do
  length=$(cloneOrPull $page)
  count=$(($count + $length))
  if [ $length -lt 100 ]; then
    break
  fi
  page=$(($page + 1))
done
echo total $count gists

gists.md

Link to search your gists. Uses @me to refer to itself in the gist search query.

https://gist.github.com/search?q=user%3A%40me&ref=searchresults

https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/searching-on-github/searching-gists

To search your gist content: https://gist.github.com/search?q=%s+%40erbanku&ref=searchresults
You can add this to your browser's custom search engine list to navigate more fast.

@erbanku thanks for sharing