get_gists.py

# first: mkdir user && cd user && cp /path/to/get_gists.py .
# python3 get_gists.py user
import requests
import sys
from subprocess import call

import numpy as np

 
user = sys.argv[1]
pages = np.arange(1,27,1)

for page in pages:
    r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/users/{0}/gists?page={1}'.format(user,page))

    for i in r.json():
            folder = i['description'][0:255] if i['description'] else i['id']
            call(['git', 'clone', i['git_pull_url'], folder])
            description_file = './{0}/description.txt'.format(folder)
            with open(description_file, 'w') as f:
                    f.write('{0}\n'.format(i['description']))