gist/lib/gist.js

Gist api client for node.js

var http = require('http');

var url = function (response) {
  var gist = JSON.parse(response).gists[0];
  return 'http://gist.github.com/' + gist.repo;
};

exports.url = url;
exports.create = function (content, callback) {
  var body = 'files[newfile]=' + content;

  var options = {
     host: 'gist.github.com',
     port: 80,
     path: '/api/v1/json/new',
     method: 'POST',
     headers: {
       'host': 'gist.github.com',
       'Content-length': body.length, 
       'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
     }
  };
   
  var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
     res.body = '';
     res.setEncoding('utf8');
     res.on('data', function (chunk) {
       res.body += chunk;
     });
     res.on('end', function () {
       callback.apply(null, [url(res.body)]);
     });
  });
   
  req.end(body);
};