Clones all gists for a user. NOTE: change the user to you

clone-gists.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import json
import os
import re
import requests
import subprocess
import unicodedata


# UPDATE THESE
username = "svandragt"
token = os.environ['GITHUB_TOKEN']
# -------------------------------------

def run(command):
	# Execute the command and capture the output
	result = subprocess.run(command, shell=True, capture_output=True, text=True)

	# Check the command's exit status
	if result.returncode == 0:
		# Print the output
		return result.stdout
	else:
		raise ValueError(result.stderr)

def slugify(value, allow_unicode=False):
	"""
	Taken from https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/utils/text.py
	Convert to ASCII if 'allow_unicode' is False. Convert spaces or repeated
	dashes to single dashes. Remove characters that aren't alphanumerics,
	underscores, or hyphens. Convert to lowercase. Also strip leading and
	trailing whitespace, dashes, and underscores.
	"""
	value = str(value)
	if allow_unicode:
		value = unicodedata.normalize('NFKC', value)
	else:
		value = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', value).encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
	value = re.sub(r'[^\w\s-]', '-', value.lower())
	return re.sub(r'[-\s]+', '-', value).strip('-_')

def json_gists(username, token):
	url = f"https://api.github.com/users/{username}/gists"

	headers = {
		"Authorization": f"Token {token}",
		"Accept": "application/vnd.github.v3+json"
	}

	response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

	if not response.status_code == 200:
		raise ValueError(response.status_code)

	gists = response.json()
	return gists


gists = json_gists(username,token)
for gist in gists:
	first_file = next(iter(gist['files']))
	gist_id = gist['id']
	dir_name = slugify(f"{first_file}-{gist_id}")

	with open(f"{dir_name}.json", 'w') as f:
		json.dump(gist, f)

	if os.path.isdir(dir_name):
		print(f"UPDATE: {dir_name}")
		cwd = os.getcwd()
		os.chdir(dir_name)
		run('git pull')
		os.chdir(cwd)
		continue

	git_url = gist['git_pull_url']
	git_cmd = f"git clone {git_url} {dir_name}"
	print(git_cmd)
	run(git_cmd)

For some reason I can't get output from the git clone command, print( run( "ls" ) ) outputs correctly.