Gist Scraping Script Prototype

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Gist Scraping Script Prototype

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Last edited Dec 17, 2022

Created on Dec 17, 2022

This prototype demonstrates a data migration workflow that iterates through every file within each GitHub Gist associated with a given username. The visualization shows the raw JSON structure of a Gist, including its metadata and file contents. The application uses the Octokit library to fetch Gist data from the GitHub API and displays example file entries such as `App.js`, `data.csv`, and `package.json`. This proof of concept is built with React and includes placeholder functions for generating identifiers and converting timestamps, though the actual migration logic is not yet implemented.

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A working proof of concept that can iterate over each file of each Gist for a given username.

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