Technical Notes

Configuration

• Maxheight feature, where scrolling happens

Copy Gists

Copy feature from raw.

Styling Gists

Custom themes

These are experimental approaches.

Gists are embedded using a JS script which generates the formatted Gist content. It is not IFRAME'd which means it can be accessed directly via CSS.

However it is also undocumented styling.

https://codersblock.com/blog/customizing-github-gists/

Themes and styling;

https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark/blob/master/src/themes/github/one-dark.css

Themes

https://danielbernal.co/styling-gist-embeds-with-css/

https://stylishthemes.github.io/GitHub-Dark/

https://github.com/StylishThemes

https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark#available-syntax-highlighting-themes-demo

Raw Retrieve & Format

Raw retrieval;

https://gist.github.com/raw/[ID]/[REVISION]/[FILE]

or

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/raw/[ID]/[REVISION]/[FILE]

[ID] is necessary [REVISION] can be omitted to get the latest revision [FILE] can be omitted to get the first file

https://gist.github.com/atenni/5604615

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/memetican/ca27982d01fbe65127da7e22104fab71/raw

Or it can be retrieved via GitHub's Gist API.

To get Gist Data;

https://api.github.com/gists/8a6a3c508b7c71deb4070d3314900b1f

https://raw.githack.com/

https://docsify.js.org/#/embed-files?id=embed-a-gist

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46073096/is-there-a-permalink-to-the-latest-version-of-gist-files

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16589511/how-do-i-get-the-raw-version-of-a-gist-from-github