Create static HTML from a Gist ID. See http://jlarocco.com/2011/12/22/static-gist-creator/ for more info.

gisthtml.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import urllib.request
import sys

from PyQt4 import QtGui
from PyQt4 import QtCore

from PyQt4.QtScript import QScriptEngine, QScriptValue

def doc_write(context, eng):
    if context.argumentCount() != 0:
        na = context.argumentCount()
        args = list()
        for i in range(na):
            args.append( str(context.argument(i).toVariant()))
        temp = ' '.join(args)
        # if not 'embed.css' in temp: broke when running the script on itself!
        if not temp.startswith('<link rel="stylesheet"'):
            temp = temp.replace("\n", '')
            print(temp)
    return QScriptValue('')

def main(args):
    gist_id = None
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
        gist_id = args[0]
    else:
        print("No Gist ID given!")
        exit(0)

    url = "https://gist.github.com/{gist_id}.js".format(gist_id=gist_id)
    app = QtCore.QCoreApplication(args)
    qse = QScriptEngine()
    dw = qse.newFunction(doc_write)
    qse.globalObject().setProperty('doc_write', dw)
    
    fh = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
    gist_script = fh.read().decode('utf-8')
    gist_script = gist_script.replace('document.write', 'doc_write')
    res = qse.evaluate(gist_script)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main(sys.argv[1:])