Clone all gists for a given user.

clone_gists_for_user.py

"""Clone all gists repos for user."""
import argparse
import json
from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool
from pathlib import Path
from subprocess import call
from urllib.request import urlopen


def pull(gist):
    assert gist["git_pull_url"] == gist["git_push_url"]
    repo_url = gist["git_pull_url"]

    assert gist["id"] in repo_url
    repo_dir = Path(gist["id"])

    if repo_dir.is_dir():
        assert call(f"cd {repo_dir}; git pull", shell=True) == 0
    else:
        assert call(f"git clone {repo_url}", shell=True) == 0


parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Clone all gist repos for provided user.")
parser.add_argument("--username", type=str, required=True, help="GitHub.com username")
args = parser.parse_args()
username = args.username

gists = json.load(urlopen(f"https://api.github.com/users/{username}/gists"))

with Pool() as pool:
    pool.map(pull, gists)