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Delete all your gists
var async = require('async');
var GitHubApi = require('github');
var github = new GitHubApi({
version: '3.0.0',
protocol: 'https'
});
github.authenticate({
type: 'basic',
username: 'user',
password: 'pass'
});
async.waterfall([
function (callback) {
github.gists.getAll({}, callback);
},
function (gists, callback) {
// filter gists by properties as needed
async.each(gists, function (gist, callback) {
github.gists.delete({
id: gist.id
}, callback);
}, callback);
}
], function (err) {
if (err) {
console.log('Execution failed: %s', err.message);
process.exit(1);
}
console.log('Done!');
process.exit(0);
});
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mikedevita commented May 25, 2017

FYI i had to modify this a bit, change line 21 to be gists.data, and then it worked for me. I also noticed it only deletes ~50 at a time.

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