Clone all gists of GitHub username given on the command line.

clone-gists.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Clone all gists of GitHub user with given username.

Clones all gist repos into the current directory, using the gist id as the
directory name. If the directory already exists as a git repo, try to perform a
'git pull' in it.

"""

import argparse
import sys
from os.path import exists, join
from subprocess import CalledProcessError, check_call

import requests


def main(args=None):
    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
    ap.add_argument("username", help="GitHub username")
    ap.add_argument("token", nargs='?', help="GitHub auth token")
    args = ap.parse_args(args)

    url = 'https://api.github.com/users/{}/gists'.format(args.username)
    headers = {"Authorization": "token " + args.token} if args.token else {}
    req = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

    if req.status_code == 200:
        for gist in req.json():
            try:
                if exists(join(gist['id'], '.git')):
                    check_call(['git', 'pull', '-v'], cwd=gist['id'])
                else:
                    check_call(['git', 'clone', gist['git_pull_url']])
            except CalledProcessError:
                print("*** ERROR cloning/updating gist {id}. "
                      "Please check output.".format(**gid))
            except KeyboardInterrupt:
                break
    else:
        return "Error reponse: {}".format(req.json().get('message'))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main() or 0)

fix-remote-urls.sh

#!/bin/env bash
# replace gist git repo remote origin https URL with SSH one.

for d in *; do
  if [ -d "$d/.git" ]; then
    pushd "$d"
    url="$(git remote get-url origin)"
    newurl="$(echo $url | sed -e 's|https://|git@|;s|\.com/|.com:|')"
    if [ "x$url" != "x$newurl" ]; then
      git remote remove origin && git remote add origin "$newurl"
      git pull origin master
      git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master master
    fi
    popd
  fi
done