Gist by different user

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Gist by different user

simon-k opened this issue 4 years ago · 4 comments

Hi

Is it possible to specify the user of the gist? Let's say the gist is created by another user than the owner of the github repo?

Answer 1 · 2021-02-03T07:45:12.000Z

I'm talking about the in

https://gist.githubusercontent.com///raw/test.json

Answer 2 · 2021-02-03T07:58:50.000Z

Reading the gist by another user is obviously possible. So you can create a badge in your README.md based on my gist. Like this :

![badge](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/schneegans/2ab8f1d386f13aaebccbd87dac94068d/raw/hello-world.json)

Writing the gist by another user is something I never tried. You would definitely need a personal access token (https://github.com/settings/tokens) by that user to be able to write to her gists. Then it may work! I think the gist ID is unique over all users of GitHub.

Answer 3 · 2021-02-04T15:11:45.000Z

I tried it out and it works.

The repo running the task is on an organization X and the gist belongs to user Y. No problem as long as I created the access token that allows to write to the gist and used the gist id.

Answer 4 · 2021-02-04T15:13:12.000Z

The question has been answered and everything is good. Closing this issue.