Programmatically discovering old gists

readme.md

Accessing Old Gists

Example gist SHA 0c37e47f24531557decd

1. List the commits from the gist

   https://gist.github.com/ICBacon/0c37e47f24531557decd/commits

2. Open the console

3. Parse the request

   // Deserialize API request into the console
   eval('var data = ' + document.getElementsByTagName('pre')[0].innerText )
   // Get the last Gist 
   gistUrl = data.slice(-1)[0]['url']

4. Open the Github Gist

   // Replace the api location with the html uri location
   // Open that bad boy
   window.open(gistUrl.replace('https://api.github.com/gists/','https://gist.github.com/'))

5. Open the Raw API

   ```javascript
   

   // Open that bad boy window.open(gistUrl)

   
   1. Parse the request again
   
   ```javascript
   // Deserialize API request into the console
   eval('var data = ' + document.getElementsByTagName('pre')[0].innerText )
   

   2. Copy homeboy into the clipboard

   copy(data['files']['MyFirstNotebook.ipynb']['content'])

References

• copy function in the console

firstnb.ipynb