simplegist 0.1

Python wrapper for Gist

Python wrapper for GitHub's Gist.

Features

• Creating gists returning the url, script and clone link for copy-paste purpose

• Checkout one’s gists - Name(s), Description and Content

• Edit and Delete a gist

• Search GitHub user’s gist - fork, star and unstar them

• List-all comments of any gist, make/edit a comment on a gist, delete a comment

Installation

$ pip install gists

Generating Github API Access Token

Go to Github’s Account settings > Applications Create a new token and use it for making API requests instead of password

Example Usage

from gist import Gist

GHgist = Gist(username='USERNAME',api_token='API_TOKEN')
# or provide USERNAME and API_TOKEN in config.py file, so just, GHgist = Gist()

# creating gist and returning url, script, clone link
GHgist.create(name='Test.py', description='just testing it', public=1, content='print "Yay! Test Passed" ')

# Lists all the names of authenticated user's gists
GHgist.profile().listall()

# Lists only the names of recent two gists of user 'softvar'
GHgist.search('softvar').list(2)

# Lists all the comments on gist named 'bootstrap-min.css' of user 'softvar'
GHgist.comments().listall(user='softvar',name='bootstrap-min.css')

# ...and many more...

Patches and suggestions are welcomed

$ git clone https://github.com/softvar/GistApi-Wrapper-python.git
$ cd GistApi-Wrapper-python