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+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 8,
+   "id": "8492734d-e7ba-4732-b1bf-596956811d9b",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "Collecting python-dotenv\n",
+      "  Downloading python_dotenv-0.20.0-py3-none-any.whl (17 kB)\n",
+      "Installing collected packages: python-dotenv\n",
+      "Successfully installed python-dotenv-0.20.0\n",
+      "\u001b[33mWARNING: There was an error checking the latest version of pip.\u001b[0m\u001b[33m\n",
+      "\u001b[0mNote: you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages.\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": []
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 22,
+   "id": "2075b6f7-9c53-454b-a6af-818f223f24b4",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "'''\n",
+    "# template .env file\n",
+    "token='ghp_<your gist token>'\n",
+    "gist_id='abc...123'\n",
+    "filename='<filename-in-gist>.txt'\n",
+    "'''\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# %pip install python-dotenv\n",
+    "\n",
+    "from dotenv import load_dotenv\n",
+    "import requests\n",
+    "import json\n",
+    "import os\n",
+    "\n",
+    "\n",
+    "### write current machine ip address to gist file\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# read env vars\n",
+    "# S/O https://stackoverflow.com/a/61029741\n",
+    "load_dotenv()\n",
+    "token = os.getenv('token')\n",
+    "gist_id = os.getenv('gist_id')\n",
+    "filename = os.getenv('filename')\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# fetch external ip address\n",
+    "# S/O https://stackoverflow.com/a/36205547\n",
+    "ip_addr = requests.get('https://api.ipify.org').content.decode('utf8')\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# request gist changes\n",
+    "# S/O https://stackoverflow.com/a/65761251\n",
+    "headers = {'Authorization': f'token {token}'}\n",
+    "request_url = f'https://api.github.com/gists/{gist_id}' \n",
+    "request_data = json.dumps({'files':{filename:{\"content\":ip_addr}}})\n",
+    "\n",
+    "r = requests.patch(\n",
+    "    url=request_url,\n",
+    "    data=request_data,\n",
+    "    headers=headers)"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 42,
+   "id": "fcda799c-3feb-4591-9582-f6187994fe36",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "### fetch gist file content\n",
+    "\n",
+    "headers = {'Authorization': f'token {token}'}\n",
+    "request_url = f'https://api.github.com/gists/{gist_id}' \n",
+    "request_data = json.dumps({'files':{filename:{\"content\":ip_addr}}})\n",
+    "r = requests.get(\n",
+    "    url=request_url,\n",
+    "    data=request_data,\n",
+    "    headers=headers)\n",
+    "gist_content = r.json()['files'][filename.strip()]['content']"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "07a9cbfe-8ab1-42d0-9810-cf2b68c97b5d",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "gist_content"
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.9.13"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}