carbon-now-cli

carbon code images from CLI.

carbon-now-cli is a CLI interface for 🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal!

It also porivdes the below functionality:

• 🖼 Downloads the real, high-quality image (no DOM screenshots)
• ✨ Detects file type automatically
• 🗂 Supports all file extensions supported by carbon.now.sh and more
• ⚡️ Interactive mode via --interactive
• 🎒 Presets : save and reuse your favorite settings
• 🖱 Selective highlighting --start and --end
• 📎 Copies image to clipboard via --copy (cross-OS 😱)
• 📚 Accepts file, stdin or clipboard content as input.
• 🐶 Displays image directly in supported terminals
• ⏱ Reports each step and therefore shortens the wait
• 👀 Saves to given location or only opens in browser for manual finish.
• 🌈 Supports saving as .png or .svg — just like Carbon
• 📏 Supports 2x, 4x or 1x resolutions — just like Carbon
• ✅ Tested
• ⛏ Maintained

Get it: npm i -g carbon-now-cli

Sample usage:

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$ carbon-now --help

Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.

Usage
  $ carbon-now <file>
  $ pbpaste | carbon-now
  $ carbon-now --from-clipboard

Options
  -s, --start          Starting line of <file>
  -e, --end            Ending line of <file>
  -i, --interactive    Interactive mode
  -l, --location       Image save location, default: cwd
  -t, --target         Image name, default: original-hash.{png|svg}
  -o, --open           Open in browser instead of saving
  -c, --copy           Copy image to clipboard
  -p, --preset         Use a saved preset
  -h, --headless       Use only non-experimental Puppeteer features
  --config             Use a different, local config (read-only)
  --from-clipboard     Read input from clipboard instead of file

GIF FTW