Clone all your gists locally with R
gists
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RJSONIO
2 comments
Thankfully an email to the support guys at Github resolved the issue within a few hours. Still, I thought it might be a good idea to download my gists locally.
I can see all my gists as a JSON file online here:
https://api.github.com/users/MYUSERLOGIN/gistsThus, I downloaded the file and thanks to the RJSONIO package I was able to clone all my gists locally with a few lines of R:
> sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2012-10-19 r60974)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] RJSONIO_0.98-1
2 comments :
Hi Markus -
great idea! Following your lead I wrote this short script file I run via Dirk's wonderful littler: "r backupgists.R"
require(httr)
mylogin <- "YOURLOGIN"
gists.url <- paste0("https://api.github.com/users/", mylogin, "/gists")
x <- content(GET(gists.url))
gist.id <- lapply(x, "[[", "id")
lapply(gist.id, function(x){
cmd <- paste0("rm -rf ", x, ";git clone git://gist.github.com/", x)
system(cmd)
}
)
Cheers
harald
Thanks Harald, this makes it even easier do download all gists.
Cheers
Markus
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