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Created March 21, 2022 20:44
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Download all gists for a specific user
# first: mkdir user && cd user && cp /path/to/get_gists.py .
# python3 get_gists.py user
import requests
import sys
from subprocess import call
user = sys.argv[1]
r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/users/{0}/gists'.format(user))
for i in r.json():
call(['git', 'clone', i['git_pull_url']])
description_file = './{0}/description.txt'.format(i['id'])
with open(description_file, 'w') as f:
f.write('{0}\n'.format(i['description']))
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