gist-neko

CLI for downloading all gists from a specified user.

Requirements

requests is used to get information from the Github API and download the gists (if you don't use -g/--git to download using git).

Note that requests will not download submodules but git will.

If you want to build this on your own, you can install the requirements with

pip install -r requirements.txt

or install the package by running

pip install gist-neko

Python's native os (used to check for whether a folder exists or not), argparse (parse return request and set command argument), subprocess (call git clone and git pull on gists) and setuptools (used to build the script) packages are also used.

How it works

I send requests to https://api.github.com/users/{username}/gists, depending on the arguments passed to the script, I either download all the gists in specified user's account with either requests or git.

You can run the script with

gist-neko
    -u <github-username>
    -t <github-personal-access-token> (optional - you will just download the public gists instead of all gists)
    -e (optional - means you will be using environment variables. This overrides -u and -t)
    -g (optional - means you will be downloading using git)
    -gu <github-username> (this will set <github-username> as environment variable)
    -gpat <github-personal-access-token> (this will set <github-personal-access-token> as environment variable)

Examples

Setting Environment Variables

This will set the specified Github username and personal access token as your GITHUB_USERNAME and GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable respectively. On Linux this is a bit buggy.

gist-neko -gu <github-username> -gpat <github-personal-access-token>

This will set the specified Github username as your GITHUB_USERNAME environment variable. On Linux this is a bit buggy.

gist-neko -gu <github-username>

This will set the specified personal access token as your GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable. On Linux this is a bit buggy.

gist-neko -gpat <github-personal-access-token>

Public Gists without Environment Variables

This will use the specified Github username and download all public gists using requests.

gist-neko -u <github-username> -t <github-personal-access-token>

This will use the specified Github username and download all public gists using git.

gist-neko -u <github-username> -t <github-personal-access-token> -g <anything>

Public and Private Gists without Environment Variables

This will use the specified Github username and personal access token and download all public and private gists using requests.

gist-neko -u <github-username> -t <github-personal-access-token>

This will use the specified Github username and personal access token and download all public and private gists using git.

gist-neko -u <github-username> -t <github-personal-access-token> -g <anything>

Public and Private Gists with Environment Variables

This will use the Github username and personal access token in the environment variables and download all public and private gists using requests.

gist-neko -e <anything>

This will use the Github username and personal access token in the environment variables and download all public and private gists using git.

gist-neko -e <anything> -g <anything>

Public and Private Gists with Environment Variables (Overriding passed Username and Personal Access Token)

This will ignore the passed Github username and personal access token instead using environment variables and download all public and private gists using requests.

gist-neko -u <github-username> -t <github-personal-access-token> -e <anything>

This will ignore the passed Github username and personal access token instead using environment variables and download all public and private gists using git.

gist-neko -u <github-username> -t <github-personal-access-token> -e <anything> -g <anything>

Simplified Examples

If you want to only download your gists (public), you can do

gist-neko -u <your-username>

If you want to only download your gists (public and private), you can either do

gist-neko -u <your-username> -t <your-personal-access-token>

or you can put your information on environment variables and do

gist-neko -e <anything>

If you want to download other people's gists (public), you can do

gist-neko -u <their-username>

If you want to download other people's gists (public and private), you can do

gist-neko -u <their-username> -t <their-personal-access-token>