Create GIST from your python code with python requests module and OAuth token.
''' | |
HTTP Reuests has following parameters: | |
1)Request URL | |
2)Header Fields | |
3)Parameter | |
4)Request body | |
''' | |
#!/usr/bin/env python | |
import requests | |
import json | |
GITHUB_API="https://api.github.com" | |
API_TOKEN='your_token_goes_here' | |
#form a request URL | |
url=GITHUB_API+"/gists" | |
print "Request URL: %s"%url | |
#print headers,parameters,payload | |
headers={'Authorization':'token %s'%API_TOKEN} | |
params={'scope':'gist'} | |
payload={"description":"GIST created by python code","public":True,"files":{"python request module":{"content":"Python requests has 3 parameters: 1)Request URL\n 2)Header Fields\n 3)Parameter \n4)Request body"}}} | |
#make a requests | |
res=requests.post(url,headers=headers,params=params,data=json.dumps(payload)) | |
#print response --> JSON | |
print res.status_code | |
print res.url | |
print res.text | |
j=json.loads(res.text) | |
# Print created GIST's details | |
for gist in range(len(j)): | |
print "Gist URL : %s"%(j['url']) | |
print "GIST ID: %s"%(j['id']) |
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I got a 401 response. what should I do?
it did well on the first try, but it doesn't work after