Github - How to search a gist via API? - github

Question

I understand that it is possible to search a repository via various criteria with the Github API but how to search for a single gist or find its id?
Ideally I'd like to use user and filename but it could be a hash inside the content body:
https://gist.github.com/search?q=sadjghasghdhjasgdfhs

Answer 1

I just found out that it is possible to search for a specific user and/or filename. I've looked at the advanced search of github, which uses user:some-user-name and path:some-file-name. These criteria also work on the gist search terms.
example: https://gist.github.com/search?q=user%3Amanuelvanrijn+path%3Aguid.js
Hope this helps until there's a search api available for gists

Answer 2

The GitHub community post given in as comment as the top answer no longer works. I pulled the Ruby example from archive.org, here it is:
module GistSearch
class << self
def search_public_gists(query:, page_limit: 10)
docs = []
base_url = "https://gist.github.com"
next_path = "/search?q=#{query}"
page_limit.times do
url = "#{base_url}#{next_path}"
html = fetch_cached(url)
doc = Nokogiri(html)
docs << doc
if !doc.search("a[rel=next]").empty?
next_path = doc.search("a[rel=next]").attr("href").value
else
break
end
end
docs
end
def build_items(queries:)
queries.flat_map do |query|
search_public_gists(query: query).flat_map do |doc|
doc.
search(".gist-snippet").
map do |gist_snippet|
Item.new(
creator: gist_snippet.search(".creator a:first").text,
title: gist_snippet.search(".creator a").map(&:text).join(" / ") + " (Matched query: #{query.inspect})",
link: gist_snippet.search(".link-overlay").attr("href").value,
guid: gist_snippet.search(".link-overlay").attr("href").value,
pub_date: Time.iso8601(gist_snippet.search("time-ago").attr("datetime").value),
content: gist_snippet.search(".js-file-line").map(&:text).join("\n"),
)
end
end
end
end