Clone all gists

gistclone.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import itertools
import json
import subprocess
import sys
import urllib.request


user = 'louisswarren'

api_url = 'https://api.github.com/users/{user}/gists?page={page}'
https_prefix = 'https://gist.github.com/'
git_prefix = 'git@gist.github.com:'

def json_query(url):
    with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:
        return json.loads(response.read().decode('utf-8'))

def run(*cmdlist, stdin=None, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, check_exit=False):
    return subprocess.run(
        cmdlist,
        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
        stdin=stdin,
        stderr=stderr,
        check=check_exit,
    ).stdout.decode()


def clone(repodict):
    url = repo['git_pull_url'].replace(https_prefix, git_prefix)

    description = (repo['description'] + ' ').lstrip()
    shortid = repo['id'][:7]
    name = f'{description}({shortid})'

    print("Cloning", name)
    run('git', 'clone', url, name)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    for page in itertools.count():
        repos = json_query(api_url.format(user=user, page=page))
        for repo in repos:
            clone(repo)