Gistlist

This is a tiny Rust project that just dumps the JSON values returned from the GitHub API for all of your gists.

I wanted to be able to clone all of my gists to a single place, to sort by number of comments, etc., and I didn't really like that the official CLI tool makes these kinds of operations difficult or impossible by only returning a few fixed fields in a fixed, not very pipeable format.

To use it you need a personal access token. If you want the output to include your private gists, the token will need to have the gist scope (the documentation just says that this grants write access, but it also is needed for read access to your private gists).

$ cargo build --release
$ target/release/gistlist -vvvvv --token ghp_aAAAaaAAaaaaAAAAAAAAAaaA list > gists.ndjson

Then you can run for example something like the following to list your most commented-on gists:

$ jq -r "[first(.files[]).filename, .comments] | @csv" < gists.ndjson | sort -t, -k2,2nr | less

Or to make a script to clone everything:

$ jq -r ".git_pull_url" < gists.ndjson | sed "s/^/git clone /"

Please note that otherwise the code provided in this repository is not "open source", but the source is available for use and modification by individuals, non-profit organizations, and worker-owned cooperatives (see the license section below for details).

License

This software is published under the Anti-Capitalist Software License (v. 1.4).