cbler 1.0.0

Extensible code concatenator and clipboard tool

cbler

Concatenate code into your clipboard with filters.

cbler is a CLI tool for extracting source files, filtering them, and copying the result to your clipboard.

• Built with Typer
• Rich output
• Multi-flag filtering
• Regex support
• Designed for piping code into ChatGPT or similar

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Install

pip install cbler

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Usage

cbler code gml . --contains Step
cbler code py . --not-suffix .test.py .old.py --prefix util_

Filters the files, copies them to your clipboard, prints a tree of what got included, and shows a summary panel.

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Filters (all optional)

Each of these accepts multiple values and regex patterns:

• --prefix, --not-prefix
• --suffix, --not-suffix
• --contains, --not-contains
• --path-contains, --not-path-contains
• --parent-contains, --not-parent-contains (matches immediate folder only)

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Examples

All .gml and .yy scripts under weather-related GameMaker objects:

cbler code gml . --path-contains Weather

All Python files that aren't test files:

cbler code py . --not-parent-contains test --not-suffix _test.py

Python utility scripts:

cbler code py . --parent-contains utils helpers

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Output

• Copies code to your clipboard using pyperclip
• Shows a Rich tree of included files
• Summary panel shows copied and skipped counts

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CLI Layout

cbler code gml [path] [filters]
cbler code py  [path] [filters]
cbler git log  [repo] [count]

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Roadmap

• --max-files limit with confirmation
• Progress bar
• --output for saving to file
• Show skipped files with reasons

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Dev install

uv pip install -e .
cbler code py . --suffix .py

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License

MIT

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Name

"cbler" = clipboard + -ler