Clone or update a user's gists locally

backup-gist.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# Clone or update all a user's gists
# curl -ks https://gist.githubusercontent.com/SerhatTeker/3b9bd9c5add01730f67ee5458db13b2e/raw/a4de62633a8818580d37114b20efbd576388413d/backup-gist.sh | bash
# curl -ks https://gist.githubusercontent.com/SerhatTeker/3b9bd9c5add01730f67ee5458db13b2e/raw/a4de62633a8818580d37114b20efbd576388413d/backup-gist.sh | USER=serhatteker bash

from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function
from __future__ import unicode_literals

import json
import math
import os
from subprocess import call

try:
    from urllib.request import urlopen
except ImportError:
    from urllib2 import urlopen


USER = os.environ["USER"]

perpage = 30.0
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 = "git://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"] is None:
            description = ""
        else:
            description = gist["description"].replace("\r", " ").replace("\n", " ")
        print(gist["id"], gistUrl, description, file=f)

backup-gist.sh

#!/bin/bash

curl -ks https://gist.githubusercontent.com/SerhatTeker/3b9bd9c5add01730f67ee5458db13b2e/raw/086c08de2944af3a2885597ac0666c8b8af19882/backup-gist.py | USER=${USER} python3