Open Source Python Command Line Tools - Page 5

Command-line tool to calculate error propagation. Generates the error formulas and applies them to the data.

pyMP is short for python music player. It started out in 2004 as a command line tool for playing cd's. The scope of the project kinda grew and now it is a fully functional MP3 player with a GUI. Check it out :)

Command-line tool for automatically renaming TV video files using titles grabbed from various TV listing sites.

q is a command line tool that allows direct execution of SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files). q treats ordinary files as database tables, and supports all SQL constructs, such as WHERE, GROUP BY, JOINs etc. It supports automatic column name and column type detection, and provides full support for multiple encodings. q fully supports all types of encoding. Use -e data-encoding to set the input data encoding, -Q query-encoding to set the query encoding, and use -E output-encoding to set the output encoding. Sensible defaults are in place for all three parameters. Files with BOM: Files which contain a BOM (Byte Order Mark) are not properly supported inside python's csv module. q contains a workaround that allows reading UTF8 files which contain a BOM - Use -e utf-8-sig for this. The plan is to separate the BOM handling from the encoding itself, which would allow to support BOMs for all encodings.

react2shell-scanner is a security-oriented tool that bridges modern JavaScript (React) applications and shell scripting by auditing web front-ends for exposed interfaces that could be manipulated or controlled through command execution. It scans React codebases, identifies places where user input interacts with shell-executable contexts, and flags risky patterns that might lead to command injection, unvalidated arguments, or unsafe bindings between UI controls and underlying system actions. This is especially valuable for projects that mix web UIs with server-side scripting, developer tooling, or plugin ecosystems where untrusted input could enter execution paths. The scanner integrates with standard CI/CD pipelines, letting teams detect issues early in development rather than discovering them in production or during penetration testing.

Reddo is a command line tool to translate any pair of languages using web translators such google, babelfish or others.

Repren is a “rename anything” command-line tool that performs regex-based search and replace across file contents while also renaming or moving files and directories according to patterns. It’s meant for sweeping refactors: change a class or package name everywhere and update filenames to match in one pass. The design favors explicitness and safety, providing dry-run output so you can preview exactly what will change before executing it. It handles recursive directory walks, lets you filter which files to touch, and supports multiple patterns in a single run to keep transformations consistent. Because it’s script-friendly, it slots well into project maintenance, codebase migrations, or release engineering tasks. The goal is to give you a reliable, repeatable alternative to ad-hoc shell loops when large-scale text and filename changes are needed.

rnb - Really Nice Backup - Command line tool for backing up your files to a removabe drive. This program is not under active development. Known bugs in the current version: - Automatic mounting of the backup drive does not work. This can be worked around by mounting the drive before running the program. - Installation fails in some newer distributions.

shot-scraper is a command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of web pages using a headless browser engine. After installation, a single command can capture a full-page screenshot of a URL and save it to a file, making it ideal for documentation, monitoring, and visual regression tasks. Under the hood it uses a modern browser (installed via a one-time shot-scraper install step) and exposes options for viewport size, full-page versus clipped screenshots, and device emulation. Beyond simple captures, it can run custom JavaScript before taking the shot, allowing you to open menus, scroll, or manipulate the DOM so the screenshot reflects the desired state. The project is deeply integrated with automation workflows: examples show it running in scheduled jobs, GitHub Actions, and bots that publish screenshots to social media or use them in docs. It ships with detailed documentation, a tutorial, and a template repository that lets you spin up an automated screenshot pipeline.

simple-modern-uv is a minimal yet production-ready Python project template that uses the uv toolchain to streamline dependency management, virtualenvs, and packaging. It aims to be “small but serious,” giving you the essentials—testing, linting, type checking, formatting, GitHub Actions—without burying you in boilerplate. The layout is opinionated around a pyproject.toml so configuration is centralized and easy to inspect. Defaults encourage good hygiene from day one, including reproducible builds and a clean release workflow to PyPI. Because the template is intentionally compact, it’s easy to understand and customize for libraries, CLIs, or small services. It’s a fast way to start new Python projects with modern tooling and guardrails already in place.

A CLI tool to convert CSV / Excel / HTML / JSON / Jupyter Notebook / LDJSON / LTSV / Markdown / SQLite / SSV / TSV / Google-Sheets to an SQLite database file.

User friendly command line tool for adjusting movie subtitles in various formats. Support for converting from one format to another (currently microdvd, subrip, TMplayer, CSV but more to come). Time stamps adjustment. Show duration of subtitle adjustment

Apple has a utility in /usr/bin named tccutil, but it only supports one command, which is to reset the entire database. It has been like this for many versions of macOS. I wanted a command-line utility that would be able to add, remove, list, and take other actions. This tool needs SIP disabled in order to function. The risk of doing so is up to you. tccutil.py can be installed without any additional software. Depending how you have your $PATH variable setup, you can simply type tccutil (instead of the full path) and it will run this utility instead of Apple's. This utility needs super-user priveleges for most operations. It is important that you either run this as root or use sudo, otherwise it won't work and you will end up with “permission denied” errors.

This repository is now hosted in github: https://github.com/juantascon/tvcmd tvcmd is a command line tool to keep track of tv shows episodes, it has a similar purpose of websites such as myepisodes.com followmy.tv or mytvshows.org but for the command line.

As of 2015-06-02, this project is no longer under active development.