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Python wrapper for GitHub's Gist API
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.. |Latest Version| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/simplegist.svg :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplegist
.. |Downloads| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/simplegist.svg :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplegist
.. code-block:: bash
$ pip install simplegist
Download here <https://github.com/softvar/simplegist/tarball/1.0.0>
_ and run python setup.py install
after changing directory to /simplegist
Go to Github's Account settings > Applications
Create a new token
and use it for making API requests instead of password
.. code-block:: python
from simplegist import Simplegist
ghGist = Simplegist(username='USERNAME', api_token='API_TOKEN')
# or provide USERNAME and API_TOKEN in config.py file, so just, ghGist = Gist()
# creating gist and getting url, script and clone link
ghGist.create(name='_GISTNAME', description='_ANY_DESCRIPTION', public=1, content='_CONTENT_GOES_HERE')
# List down all the names of authenticated user's Gists
ghGist.profile().listall()
# List down only the names of recent two Gists of user '_USERNAME'
ghGist.search('_USERNAME').list(2)
# List down all the comments on gist named '_GISTNAME' of user 'USERNAME'
ghGist.comments().listall(user='_USERNAME', name='_GISTNAME')
# ...and many more...
Visit here READTHEDOCS <https://simplegist.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>
_ or PYTHONHOSTED <http://pythonhosted.org/simplegist/>
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.. code-block:: bash
$ git clone https://github.com/softvar/simplegist.git $ cd simplegist
FAQs
Python wrapper for Gist
We found that simplegist demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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