Get a list of my gists with PHP streams

get.php

<?php

ini_set('user_agent', "PHP"); // github requires this

$api = 'https://api.github.com';
$url = $api . '/users/lornajane/gists';
// make the request
$response = file_get_contents($url);

// check we got something back before decoding
if(false !== $response) {
    $gists = json_decode($response, true);
} // otherwise something went wrong