gist.py

from urllib import request
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
from os import path
import json
import base64


CREATE_URL = 'https://api.github.com/gists'


def config(key):
    cmd = Popen(['git', 'config', '--global', key], stdout=PIPE)
    return cmd.communicate()[0].decode('utf-8').strip()


def create_auth(login, token):
    #print('{}/token:{}'.format(login, token))
    return 'Basic {}'.format(base64.b64encode('{}/token:{}'.format(login, token).encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8'))


def create(files, private=False, description=None):
    data = {
        'files': {},
        'public': not private,
        'description': description if description else 'Uploaded by gist.py',
    }
    for fn in files:
        data['files'][path.basename(fn)] = {
            'content': open(fn).read(),
        }
    print(json.dumps(data))
    req = request.Request(CREATE_URL,
        headers={
            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
            'Accept': 'application/json',
            'Authorization': create_auth(config('github.user'), config('github.token'))},
        data=json.dumps(data).encode('utf-8'))
    return json.loads(request.urlopen(req).read().decode('utf-8'))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    print(create(sys.argv[1:]))
    #print(create_auth(config('github.user'), config('github.token')))