I'm not really working on this any more. It needs a rewrite against a python GitHub API library rather than my own homebrewed solution.

A command line GitHub gist posting application in Python.

Your options for authentication:

• Basic support for 2 Factor Authentication - I have not tested the SMS backup.

• Username/password combos - python-gists will request an authorisation and save a token. See https://github.com/settings/applications

• Personal Access Tokens - these are the same ones you use for git-over-HTTPS if you've got 2FA enabled. See https://github.com/settings/applications, create a new token, then launch python-gist with the -o option

$ python python-gist.py --help
Usage: python-gist.py [options]

Options:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit
-o, --oauth           Use a Personal Access Token instead of a username/password
-d DESC, --description="a description"
    Description for the gist
-f FILES, --files=FILES
    Comma seperated list of file(s) to post as a gist
-p, --private         Use to post a private gist

$ python python-gist.py 
Loaded saved access token, I'm good to go.
Enter your Gist contents
***********************
****^D  when done******
This is a gist
https://gist.github.com/4096470

$ python python-gist.py -d 'Multi file gist' -f python-gist.py,README.md
Loaded saved access token, I'm good to go.
Uploading files..
https://gist.github.com/4096475

$ python python-gist.py -d 'Multi file gist' -f python-gist.py,README.md -p
Loaded saved access token, I'm good to go.
Uploading files..
https://gist.github.com/b766c2becf1874b1665b

Delete the API token that python-gists requested from https://github.com/settings/applications

Delete the oauth.cfg file (%AppData%\python-gist on Windows, ~/.config/python-gist on *nix)

• Add an option to deauthorise/cleanup the script
• Make the script installable
• Package this for Windows
• Ability to use an external editor
• Implement the rest of the GitHub API, in github_auth.py
• More unit tests
• Tag an actual release
• Pin the API use to a version, instead of using the "beta"
• Python 3 version

• Amit Saha, for adding a whole lot of features
• HaveF, for telling me that my OAuth implementation was completely broken
• The author of https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-oauth-token-for-command-line-use