chart-cli 🗂️

Terminal chart generator — bar, line, pie, histogram. Zero dependencies.

pip install chart-cli

# Bar chart
chart bar "Mon:120 Tue:200 Wed:150 Thu:280 Fri:95" --sort

# Line chart
chart line 10 25 18 42 35 60 55 78

# Pie chart  
chart pie "Python:45 JavaScript:25 Rust:15 Go:10 Other:5"

# Histogram
echo "12 25 18 42 35 60 55 78 90 45 30 67 82" | chart hist

# Horizontal bars
chart bar "CPU:78 Memory:92 Disk:45 Network:33" --horizontal

What it looks like

chart bar "Mon:120 Tue:200 Wed:150 Thu:280 Fri:95"

条形图

                    █
                    █
            ▌       █
            █       █
            █       █
      ▌     █  ▌    █
      █     █  █    █
   ▌  █  ▌  █  █  █
   █  █  █  █  █  █
  ──────────────────
 Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri
 120  200  150  280  95

chart pie "Python:45 JavaScript:25 Rust:15 Go:10 Other:5"

饼图

          Python  ████████████████████  45  (45%)
     JavaScript  ██████████            25  (25%)
            Rust  ██████               15  (15%)
              Go  ████                 10  (10%)
           Other  ██                    5  ( 5%)

Why chart-cli?

• Zero dependencies — pure Python stdlib. Install in <1 second.
• No npm — no node_modules, no package.json, no webpack.
• Pipe-friendly — works in shell pipelines, CI/CD, scripts.
• Cross-platform — Linux, macOS, Windows, WSL. Any terminal.
• One command — pip install chart-cli && chart bar ...

Use cases

• 📊 Quick data visualization in SSH sessions
• 🔄 CI/CD pipeline reports (no headless browser needed)
• 📝 Embed charts in Markdown code blocks
• 🐳 Docker containers (keep images small)
• 🎓 Teaching/learning data concepts

License

MIT