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Created March 14, 2021 20:58
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Backup all gists python script
#! /usr/bin/env python
# To execute, copy script into a ~/gists directory, and 'python gist-backup.py'
# This will git clone every public and private gist of GITHUB-USER into that folder
# as well as a contents.txt folder.
# From : https://gist.github.com/ChristopherA/163aff3f1eeba9206d73
USER = 'ozh'
from __future__ import print_function
import json
import urllib
from subprocess import call
import os
import math
try:
from urllib.request import urlopen
except ImportError:
from urllib2 import urlopen
perpage = 30
userurl = urlopen('https://api.github.com/users/' + USER)
public_gists = json.load(userurl)
gistcount = public_gists['public_gists']
print("Found gists: " + str(gistcount))
pages = int(math.ceil(float(gistcount) / perpage))
print("Found pages: " + str(pages))
f = open('./contents.txt', 'w+')
for page in range(pages):
pageNumber = str(page + 1)
print("Processing page number " + pageNumber)
pageUrl = 'https://api.github.com/users/' + USER + '/gists?page=' + \
pageNumber + '&per_page=' + str(int(perpage))
u = urlopen (pageUrl)
gists = json.load(u)
startd = os.getcwd()
for gist in gists:
gistd = gist['id']
gistUrl = 'https://gist.github.com/' + gistd + '.git'
if os.path.isdir(gistd):
os.chdir(gistd)
call(['git', 'pull', gistUrl])
os.chdir(startd)
else:
call(['git', 'clone', gistUrl])
if gist['description'] == None:
description = ''
else:
description = gist['description']
print(gist['id'], gistUrl, description, file=f)
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