Gist Feed

gist-feed.md

Someone should make...

Github gist feed.
So you can see what people you follow are pasting in Github.

You can:

• create a gist feed for code reference
• show gists by keyword, language, or follower
• enable replies and favoriting

API michael/github

https://github.com/michael/github

Particular user's gists

user.userGists(username, function(err, gists) {});

Get a gist

var gist = github.getGist(3165654);

// Read the contents of a Gist.
gist.read(function(err, gist) {

});

Response https://api.github.com/gists/5450088

{
  "created_at": "2012-11-09T22:02:23Z",
  "updated_at": "2013-12-08T08:22:24Z",
  "files": {
    "gistfile1.phtml": {
      "filename": "gistfile1.phtml",
      "type": "application/httpd-php",
      "language": "HTML+PHP",
      "raw_url": "https://gist.github.com/elparkino/5450088/raw/1cd97fe424225d877ec7b35ba822d1934a0dfc53/gistfile1.phtml",
      "size": 3449,
      "content": "..."
    }
  },
  "description": null,
  "fork_of": {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/gists/4048580",
    "forks_url": "https://api.github.com/gists/4048580/forks",
    "id": "4048580",
    "html_url": "https://gist.github.com/4048580",
    "user": {...}
  },
  "forks": [
    {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/gists/6436686",
      "user": {
        "login": "petrosh",
        "id": 4997583
      }
    }
  ],
  "history": [...]
}

To Do

• List the authenticated user’s starred gists: http://developer.github.com/v3/gists/#list-gists

GET /gists/starred

this.userGists = function(username, cb) {
  _request("GET", "/gists/starred", null, function(err, res) {
    cb(err,res);
  });
};

Parameters: since – A timestamp in ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ. Only gists updated at or after this time are returned.