gist-img(1)

Store images in gists.

Status

Experimental

Installation

gist-img.sh is a tiny shell script that encodes the given image in base64 and uploads it to gist using the gist(1) commands line utility.

$ brew install https://github.com/chrismytton/gist-img/raw/master/extras/gist-img.rb

Usage

To upload an image, run the following:

$ gist-img path/to/image.png
https://gist.github.com/95a503ec9047b45fe3e0

If everything worked correctly you'll get back a gist url, if you get a 500 error then the file you're uploading is too big.

To convert this gist url back into an image, just invoke the gist-img command with the gist id (the last bit of the url) that you want to get back.

$ gist-img 99a02182ca4467707b40

Known limitations

• Can only handle files less than ~50k
• Only handles png files

License

Licensed under the MIT license, see MIT-LICENSE for details.

Copyright (c) Chris Mytton