Textualize/rich-cli

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3714 stars · 116 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Rich-CLI is a command line toolbox for fancy terminal output, built on the Rich library. It syntax-highlights many file types with specialized rendering for Markdown, JSON, and Jupyter notebooks, and lets you format text from the command line.

Use cases

• syntax highlight source files in the terminal
• render markdown files with colors in the terminal
• pretty-print and colorize JSON from the command line
• view Jupyter notebooks in the terminal
• print text with markup, alignment, and rules from the shell
• display files with line numbers and indentation guides

When to choose

• you want pretty terminal rendering of code, Markdown, or JSON without writing any code
• you already use the Rich library and want a quick CLI companion
• you need a cross-platform tool installable via pip, pipx, Homebrew, or conda

When to avoid

• you need to build rich terminal UIs programmatically rather than format output from the shell
• you need a full pager or file viewer rather than one-shot rendering
• you work outside Python ecosystems and prefer tools built into your shell

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli developer-tools markdown json pdf developer-tools cli cross-platform python windows syntax-highlighting terminal-output rich text-formatting pygments command-line macos linux

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