Allow uploading images.

[expipiplus1]

At the moment gist something.png fails with Error: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8. It would be handy to be able to upload a sequence of bytes with a filename, instead of requiring a specific encoding.

[ConradIrwin]

Hey Joe!

Last I looked the API required putting the contents of files into JSON, which meant you could only upload files that were valid utf-8 — can you please do some research on the gist API and determine if this is possible now?

Thanks!

Conrad

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On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 5:36 AM, Joe Hermaszewski[email protected] wrote:

At the moment gist something.png fails with Error: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8. It would be handy to be able to upload a sequence of bytes with a filename, instead of requiring a specific encoding.

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[expipiplus1]

Looks like it isn't possible with the HTTP api. The only way to do it is via the git interface it seems, quite a departure from how things are done in this tool.

[hackerb9]

I notice the README says that this is potentially the best command line gister. Some people are recommending to use gistup instead because it "works perfectly" to upload images.

Although it is written in nodejs, a quick perusal of the code seems to show how they manage it without an API: they just call child.exec("git ...").

I know it's ugly, but could this be a possible solution?

[ConradIrwin]

Pull requests welcome :)

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:08 PM, hackerb9 < [email protected] > wrote:

I notice the README says that this is potentially the best command line gister. Some people are recommending to use gistup ( https://github.com/mbostock/gistup ) instead because it "works perfectly" to upload images.

Although it is written in nodejs, a quick perusal of the code seems to show how they manage it without an API: they just call child.exec("git ...").

I know it's ugly, but could this be a possible solution?

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[expipiplus1]

@hackerb9 I wrote https://github.com/expipiplus1/gist-image to scratch this itch. It's very simple but satisfies my use case.

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Pull requests welcome :)

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I notice the README says that this is potentially the best command line gister. Some people are recommending to use gistup ( https://github.com/mbostock/gistup ) instead because it "works perfectly" to upload images.

Although it is written in nodejs, a quick perusal of the code seems to show how they manage it without an API: they just call child.exec("git ...").

I know it's ugly, but could this be a possible solution?

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[hackerb9]

Thanks, expipiplus1. (eˣππ+1?)

[expipiplus1]

e^iπ+1 :)

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Thanks, expipiplus1. (eˣππ+1?)

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