gist backup

gist-backup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Git clone all my gists
 
import json
import urllib
from urllib import urlopen

from subprocess import call

import os

USER = 'iainmcampbell'
BASE_PATH = os.getcwd()
 
u = urlopen('https://api.github.com/users/'+USER+'/gists')
gists = json.load(u)
 
for gist in gists:

	gist_path = BASE_PATH + '/' + gist['id']

	if os.path.exists(gist_path):

		print( '\n' + gist['id'] + ' exists, pulling')

		os.chdir(gist_path)
		call(['git', 'pull', 'origin', 'master'])

	else:

		print( '\n' + gist['id'] + ' is new, cloning')

		os.chdir(BASE_PATH)
		call(['git', 'clone', 'git://gist.github.com/' + gist['id'] + '.git'])