how to point gist to bl.ocks.org

[Johnathan Mercer]

Hi,

I'm a n00b to github and gist. After I create the gist, how do I actually point it to bl.ocks.org? I see download, clone, embed etc but there is nothing in the options while I am editing to point it.

John

[aRob]

I had the same question.  Here's the thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/d3-js/How$20to$20create$20a$20bl.ocks$20url$3F$3F|sort:relevance/d3-js/XyF2-cN9c2I/oTykOuxbtvMJ

Essentially you just need to replace https://gist.github.com with http://bl.ocks.org/ in the url to your gist code.

Hope this helps.

-Aliya

[Johnathan Mercer]

Nice!!

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[joe beuckman]

I have gists that are not html that I would like to keep. Is there a way to hide them from bl.ocks.org?

[Chris Viau]

If you rename index.html to something else, I think it will be ignore.

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[joe beuckman]

That shows a block linking to whatever code is in the gist. I'm looking for a way to hide public gists that aren't intended for bl.ocks.org

[Ian Johnson]

set the gist to private?

bl.ocks doesn't discriminate, if you direct link to a gist it will show.

it wont show up in your user listing if it doesn't have an index.html (the user listing just does a simple query on all your public gists with index.html).

it's not about hiding, just don't link to gists you don't want to be blocks.

Ian Johnson - 周彦

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[joe beuckman]

I have gists with no index.html that show in my user listing on bl.ocks.org

[Chris Viau]

You are right. Here is a bl.ocks without an index.html that appears in my bl.ocks list: http://bl.ocks.org/biovisualize/5320723

[Ian Johnson]

my mistake, i was under the impression that was how it used to work.

you can always fork bl.ocks ;)

[joe beuckman]

Maybe Mike is listening? I think if there is no index.html or no thumbnail.png, that might be a good reason not to show a gist in bl.ocks.org

[Chris Viau]

Looking at the last available source code, nothing seems to prevent them to be listed. I suppose you can open an issue if you think the behavior should be changed:

https://github.com/mbostock/bl.ocks.org/commit/12ca85a6f27e6201aa95101071cc7a7f9fbef207

Chris

[Mike Bostock]

All gists are shown, not just those with an index.html. If you don’t want a gist to appear, then you must create a "secret" gist instead.

This change was partly a side-effect of GitHub removing the "files" hash from the user gist list API; there’s no longer an efficient way for an external entity to tell which gists have an index.html and which don’t.

However, I also think it’s handy to use bl.ocks.org to share files without an index.html, say as a prettier way to present prose:

  http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4454550

Mike

[joe beuckman]

That's a handy feature. What if there were an optional bl.ocks.json file that could provide display parameters, including the ability to hide the gist or particular gist files from bl.ocks.org? I'm happy to submit an issue if this is something that could be useful.

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[Chris Viau]

It could be an improvement, even if I think bl.ocks is trying to avoid querying more files, as there is a cost to this (requests, cache management, etc.). 

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[Mike Bostock]

There’s no way to see what files are available in a gist, when listing a user’s gists. So using a file to hide a gist wouldn’t be possible without fetching the gist (which is expensive, even though they are cached in-memory). You could use a file to customize the display of an individual gist, but so far I’ve hesitated to make bl.ocks.org more configurable than necessary. You can hide individual files in the source view by using the prefix "README"; also, large files are automatically not shown to prevent the page from hanging during syntax highlighting.

Mike