In order to create gists you have to get an oauth token. That could be easily obtained via curl:
curl -X POST 'https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@api.github.com/authorizations' \
-d '{"scopes":["gist"],"note":"App::Nopaste"}'
or you can use this module to do the same:
perl -MApp::Nopaste::Service::Gist -e 'App::Nopaste::Service::Gist->create_token'
You can also generate a token by navigating to <https://github.com/settings/tokens> and generate a new
token with the 'Create gists' ability.
Then, export the resulting token as the the "GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN" environment variable. This will grant
gist rights to App::Nopaste (or anything else that Don't worry, you can revoke access rights anytime from
the GitHub profile settings.
Alternatively, you can export the "GITHUB_USER" and "GITHUB_PASSWORD" environment variables, just like
for the gist <https://github.com/defunkt/gist> utility.
You can also simply store your credentials in plaintext in ~/.github as in:
login bob
password ilikeducks
That's it!