Take input from stdin and create a new public gist with it

new_gist.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import getpass, mechanize, optparse, os.path, sys

parser = optparse.OptionParser()
parser.add_option('--login')
parser.add_option('--password')
parser.add_option('--filename')
parser.add_option('--description')
parser.add_option('--private', action='store_true', default=False)
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

br = mechanize.Browser()

if options.login:
    if not options.password:
        options.password = getpass.getpass('Password for %s@github: ' % options.login)

    br.open('https://gist.github.com/login')
    br.select_form(nr=1)
    br.form.find_control('login').value = options.login
    br.form.find_control('password').value = options.password
    result = br.submit()

br.open('https://gist.github.com')
br.select_form(nr=1)
br.form.find_control('file_contents[gistfile1]').value = sys.stdin.read()

if options.filename:
    br.form.find_control('file_name[gistfile1]').value = options.filename
if options.description:
    br.form.find_control('description').value = options.description
if options.private:
    br.submit(nr=0)
else:
    br.submit(nr=1)

print br.geturl()

if os.path.exists('/usr/bin/pbcopy'):
    retval = os.system('echo %r | /usr/bin/pbcopy' % br.geturl())
    if retval == 0:
        print 'Copied gist url (%s) to the clipboard.' % br.geturl()

Hi Marc,

I've taken the liberty to add buildout to your code to make it accesible to more people without having to install mechanize.
I've also added an option for syntax highlight when uploading.
You can find the code here: https://github.com/maraca/gisty

Thanks a lot for your very useful snippet !

MacBookPro:bin daniel$ gist
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./gist", line 25, in
br.open('https://gist.github.com')
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 203, in open
return self._mech_open(url, data, timeout=timeout)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 255, in _mech_open
raise response
mechanize._response.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 403: request disallowed by robots.txt