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Download all gists for a specific user
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# first: mkdir user && cd user && cp /path/to/get_gists.py . | |
# python3 get_gists.py user | |
import requests | |
import sys | |
from subprocess import call | |
user = sys.argv[1] | |
r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/users/{0}/gists'.format(user)) | |
for i in r.json(): | |
call(['git', 'clone', i['git_pull_url']]) | |
description_file = './{0}/description.txt'.format(i['id']) | |
with open(description_file, 'w') as f: | |
f.write('{0}\n'.format(i['description'])) |
One-liner to get the first 100 of your own private gists:
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <your_token>" 'https://api.github.com/gists?per_page=100' | jq '.[] | .git_pull_url' | xargs -n 1 git clone
Relies on jq.
import os
import sys
import json
import hashlib
import requests
import logging
from subprocess import call, CalledProcessError
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor as PoolExecutor
# Set up basic logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
def download_all_from_user(user: str):
next_page = True
page = 1
while next_page:
url = f"https://api.github.com/users/{user}/gists?page={page}"
response = requests.get(url)
try:
gists = response.json()
if not gists:
next_page = False
continue
except json.JSONDecodeError:
logging.error("Invalid JSON response")
break
page += 1
download_all(gists)
def download_all(gists: list):
with PoolExecutor(max_workers=10) as executor:
for _ in executor.map(download, gists):
pass
def download(gist):
if "id" not in gist or "updated_at" not in gist or "git_pull_url" not in gist:
logging.error("Missing required gist information")
return
target = gist["id"] + hashlib.md5(gist["updated_at"].encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
try:
call(["git", "clone", gist["git_pull_url"], target])
except CalledProcessError as e:
logging.error(f"Failed to clone gist: {e}")
return
description_file = os.path.join(target, "description.txt")
try:
with open(description_file, "w") as f:
f.write(f"{gist.get('description', 'No description')}\n")
except IOError as e:
logging.error(f"Failed to write description file: {e}")
# Main execution
if __name__ == "__main__":
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
user = sys.argv[1]
download_all_from_user(user)
else:
logging.error("No user specified")
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@antonydevanchi @leoloobeek thanks, both code works fine