Clone all gists of GitHub username given on the command line.

clone-gists.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Clone all gists of GitHub user with given username.

Clones all gist repos into the current directory, using the gist id as the
directory name. If the directory already exists as a git repo, try to perform a
'git pull' in it.

"""

import sys
import requests
from os.path import exists, join
from subprocess import CalledProcessError, check_call


if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    gh_user = sys.argv[1]
else:
    sys.exit("Usage: clone-gists.py <GitHub username>")

req = requests.get('https://api.github.com/users/%s/gists' % gh_user)

for gist in req.json():
    try:
        gid = gist['id']
        if exists(join(gid, '.git')):
            check_call(['git', 'pull', '-v'], cwd=gid)
        else:
            check_call(['git', 'clone', gist['git_pull_url']])
    except CalledProcessError:
        print("*** ERROR cloning/updating gist %s. Please check output." % gid)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        break

fix-remote-urls.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# replace gist git repo remote origin https URL with SSH one.
#

for d in *; do
    if [ -d "$d/.git" ]; then
        pushd "$d"
        url="$(git remote get-url origin)"
        newurl="$(echo $url | sed -e 's|https://|git@|;s|\.com/|.com:|')"

        if [ "x$url" != "x$newurl" ]; then
            git remote remove origin && git remote add origin "$newurl"
            git pull origin master
            git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master master
        fi

        popd
    fi
done