How i create gists and write them to markdown table
Background
I have hundreds of code snippets in OneNote, I want to put them into python cheat sheat.md
file. I achieve this by creating gists and write them into my markdown file with Python. You can see the result at my blog.
Idea
Create a gist for each code snippet, then embed the <script>
tag into markdown file.
First we need to generate a new personal token here.
We only need the permission that relate to gist.
Then we move on to coding.
Code
import requests
gist_content = "import operator\ns = [[1, 2], [1, 0], [2, 0]]\ns.sort(key=lambda x: (x[0], x[1]))"
gist_name = "create gist example.py"
new_gist = {
"description": "[Hello] #python",
"public": "true",
"files": {
gist_name: {
"content": gist_content
}
}
}
response = requests.post(
'https://api.github.com/gists',
json=new_gist,
# wizna is my GitHub username, change it to yours
auth=('wizna', 'YOUR PERSONAL TOKEN STRING'))
gist_id = response.json()['id']
gist_address = '<script src="https://gist.github.com/Wizna/%s.js"></script>' % gist_id
print(gist_address)
Output
<script src="https://gist.github.com/Wizna/0a08f9881faae58f482812ffa1cf1a45.js"></script>
Written on July 16, 2019