create gist in command line

gistit.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from urllib.request import urlopen, Request
import json
from sys import argv
from os.path import expanduser as expand

data = {
        "description" : "",
        "public" : True,
        "files" : {}
        }

if "-h" in argv:
    print("""create a gist in github
    
    arguments:

    -h ~> this help
    -f ~> filename
    -d ~> description (default = '')
    -p ~> set to private gist
    """)

elif "-f" not in argv:
    print("selecione um arquivo usando -f ou veja as opções com -h")

else:
    for i in range(1, len(argv)-1, 2):
        if argv[i] == "-f":
            filename = argv[i+1]
            data["files"][filename] = {"content" : open(filename).read()}
        elif argv[i] == "-d":
            data["description"] = argv[i+1]

    if "-p"  in argv:     
        data["public"] = False

    url = "https://api.github.com/gists"
    token = open(expand("~/.config/github_api.token")).read()
    
    req = Request(url)    
    req.add_header('Authorization', 'token {0}'.format(token))

    response = urlopen(req, data=json.dumps(data).encode())

    res = json.loads(response.read())

    #print(json.dumps(res, indent=True))
    #print("_"*70)
    print(res["html_url"])

how to generate tokens:

access https://github.com/settings/tokens > "generate new token"

save token as simple text file in ~/.config/github_api.token

recommendations

obs: gistit.py == this gist

1. copy this file to /opt
2. sudo chmod a+x gistit.py
3. sudo ln -s (pwd)/gistit.py /bin // tested in fish shell

and have fun :-)