gistload

A script used to download public gists of a given GitHub user

Usage

gistload.sh <github-username> <dir>

All files for all the user's gists will be downloaded into the specified directory. Downloaded file name will include the original file name plus a portion of sha256 sum of its url in the form of: <4bytes-of-hash>_<originalname>, for instance shah_originalFile.txt

In case target dir exists, is a git repo and contains unstaged changes, downloading will be aborted.

Requirements

• bash 4+
• jq
• curl
• (optional) git