GistIt

Create Gists from the command line.

Requires the Requests library. Should work on Python 2.7 and 3.3+.

Features

• Anonymous and authenticated Gist creation.
• Public/Private Gists.
• Easy token creation, scoped only for Gist (not the rest of GitHub)
• Filenames with path context (optional).

Usage

General usage:

usage: gistit.py [-h] [--token TOKEN] {create,token} ...

positional arguments:
  {create,token}        Available commands
    create              Create new gist
    token               Create a new gist access token and store it in a file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --token TOKEN, -t TOKEN
                        Path to token file

Create command:

usage: gistit.py create [-h] [--description DESCRIPTION] [--public]
                        [--anonymous] [--no-contextual]
                        file [file ...]

positional arguments:
  file                  File to upload

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --description DESCRIPTION, -d DESCRIPTION
                        Gist description
  --public, -p          Create as public gist
  --anonymous, -a       Create as anonymous
  --no-contextual, -C   Use normal filenames, without path context

Token command:

usage: gistit.py token [-h] username

positional arguments:
  username    Github username or email

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit