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Top 23 Python Command Line Tool Projects
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Project mention: Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-26
I never used pushd and popd. Did not even know about them. But I use autojump it give directories a prioroty numbers and then you just have to type "j pro" and you cd into your projects folder for example.
https://github.com/wting/autojump
just looked at it again it also has a jc comment do and commands to open file explorer that I never used.
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Project mention: XAN: A Modern CSV-Centric Data Manipulation Toolkit for the Terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-27
I used to use q for this sort of thing. Not sure if there are better choices now as it have been a few years.
https://harelba.github.io/q/
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google-images-download
Python Script to download hundreds of images from 'Google Images'. It is a ready-to-run code!
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bbot is a recursive internet scanner that supports Python-based modules.
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jc
CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.
Project mention: Show HN: Jb / json.bash – Command-line tool (and bash library) that creates JSON | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-03How is this different to this https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
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nvitop
An interactive NVIDIA-GPU process viewer and beyond, the one-stop solution for GPU process management.
Project mention: nvitop VS nviwatch - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/nvitop | 2024-09-09 -
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graphtage
A semantic diff utility and library for tree-like files such as JSON, JSON5, XML, HTML, YAML, and CSV.
Project mention: Graphtage – Semantic Diff for JSON, XML, HTML, YAML, and CSV | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-20 -
firefox_decrypt
Firefox Decrypt is a tool to extract passwords from Mozilla (Firefox™, Waterfox™, Thunderbird®, SeaMonkey®) profiles
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awesome-cli-apps-in-a-csv
The largest Awesome Curated list of command line programs (CLI/TUI) with source data organized into CSV files
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Project mention: Show HN: ProgressLine – Track commands progress in a compact one-line format | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-18
See also 'colout' to colorize a text stream.
https://github.com/nojhan/colout
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qr-filetransfer
Transfer files over WiFi between your computer and your smartphone from the terminal
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A tool such as git-delete-merged-branches[1] may also be helpful.
[1]: https://github.com/hartwork/git-delete-merged-branches
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june
Local voice chatbot for engaging conversations, powered by Ollama, Hugging Face Transformers, and Coqui TTS Toolkit (by mezbaul-h)
Project mention: Show HN: Local Voice Assistant Using Ollama, Transformers and Coqui TTS Toolkit | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-20 -
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Command Line Tool projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | autojump | 16,539 |
| 2 | q | 10,282 |
| 3 | google-images-download | 8,632 |
| 4 | bbot | 8,464 |
| 5 | jc | 8,178 |
| 6 | nvitop | 5,540 |
| 7 | rebound | 4,131 |
| 8 | iredis | 2,637 |
| 9 | organize | 2,588 |
| 10 | graphtage | 2,407 |
| 11 | firefox_decrypt | 2,196 |
| 12 | PyInquirer | 1,969 |
| 13 | awesome-cli-apps-in-a-csv | 1,909 |
| 14 | gita | 1,726 |
| 15 | colout | 1,145 |
| 16 | qr-filetransfer | 987 |
| 17 | git-delete-merged-branches | 892 |
| 18 | june | 766 |
| 19 | azure-devops-cli-extension | 651 |
| 20 | matrix-commander | 638 |
| 21 | fontbakery | 595 |
| 22 | starcli | 563 |
| 23 | git-big-picture | 551 |
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