Gist Api Fun

get-gists.py

import http.client
import json

def gist_get():
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.github.com")
    headers = {
        'Content-type' : 'application/json',
        'User-Agent' : 'Does this really have to be anything'
        }
    
    emptyparams = { }
    
    conn.request("GET", "/gists/public", emptyparams, headers)
    #conn.request("GET", "/users/kparms/gists", emptyparams, headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()    
    response = response.read().decode()
    #print (type(response))

    d = json.loads(response)
    #print (len(d))
    #print (d)
    for item in d:
        print (item['html_url'])
        print (item['owner']['login'])

response = gist_get()
#print (response)

gistapi.py

import http.client
import json

def gist_write(name, content):
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.github.com")
    headers = {
        'Content-type' : 'application/json',
        'User-Agent' : 'Does this really have to be anything'
        }
    params = {
        'description': name,
        'public': True,        
        'files': {
            'file1.txt': {
                'content': content
                }
            }
        }
    json_params = json.dumps(params)
    
    conn.request("POST", "/gists", json_params, headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()    
    print (response.read().decode())

response = gist_write("testgist", "Here is a gist that I made")
print (response)

newdoc.txt

I created a new document and added it to this git repo