A NodeJS script to clone/pull all of your public gists at gist.github.com: `node rip_gists.js danyshaanan`.

rip_gists

.gitignore

gists.json
target

rip_gists.js

#!/usr/bin/env node

// Clones/pull all public gists of a user

const fs = require('fs')

const username = (process.argv[2] || '').replace(/[^0-9A-Za-z_]/g,'')
if (!username) throw new Error('no username supplied!')

const ensureDir = dir => (fs.existsSync(dir) || fs.mkdirSync(dir), dir)
const dir = ensureDir(`${ensureDir('target')}/${username}`)
const gistsJson = `./${dir}/gists.json`

const throwWith = (com, e) => { throw new Error(`exec error for command "${command}": ${e}`) }

const execute = (command, cb = _ => _) => {
  console.log(`executing command: ${command}`)
  require('child_process').exec(command, e => { e ? throwWith(command, e) : cb() })
}

const getGist = ({id}) => execute(`cd ${dir}/${id} && git pull || git clone git@gist.github.com:/${id}.git ${dir}/${id}`)
const wgetCommand = `wget https://api.github.com/users/${username}/gists -O ${gistsJson}`

execute(wgetCommand, _ => { require(gistsJson).forEach(getGist) })