GitHub – Convert Secret Gists to Public

Zapier co-founder here, for anyone else curious about how you might do this yourself, Github has really killer API docs which show how to use their API to read/create your gists. Its kind of annoying as you'll have to "poll" for new entries and compare them across time, but it isn't infeasible. Using a standar RSS reader like Google reader is a simple solution as you eluded to.

Further, this is a great suggestion, in fact I spent the last 30 minutes adding support for this. Its live now. If you have a Zapier account already, you'll need to add your Github account to us again to catch the new gist scope.

For convenience's sake I've even spun up a quick template that sends a POST whenever a new Gist is detected.

The github markup uses org-ruby to convert org-mode to HTML. It is fairly basic and its README says:

[...] Currently, you cannot do much to customize the conversion. The supplied textile conversion is optimized for extracting “content” from the orgfile as opposed to “metadata.”

That is not very specific, but it appears what you are trying to do is not possible. If you have a look at the source, you see it uses very few options like 'f', or 'num'. But 'toc', and 'H' are not being used.

I don't know of any workarounds, except to extend org-ruby.