# Textualize/rich-cli

Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal

Repository: https://github.com/Textualize/rich-cli
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rich-cli
Homepage: https://www.textualize.io
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: rich, terminal, terminal-colors, syntax-highlighting, markdown
Last push: 2026-08-12T04:57:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1684, "days_push": 21, "days_rel": 425, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3714, forks 116 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:15.318173+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, developer-tools, markdown, json, pdf
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform, python, windows
- tags: syntax-highlighting, terminal-output, rich, text-formatting, pygments, command-line, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- Textualize/rich-cli (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.318173+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:29:23.605611+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Textualize/rich-cli (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.318173+00:00, sha dfff78fcd47b)
  - homepage: https://www.textualize.io (fetched 2026-08-29T09:24:10.792886+00:00, sha c9fc34304275)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/rich-cli/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:24:10.801800+00:00, sha 7ae36a167968)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.