ChangeLog Keeper

A CLI tool that helps you with maintaining CHANGELOG.md using keep a changelog format.

Resources

GitHub action quickstart

Use taminomara/cl-keeper@v1 to parse a change log. It takes git tag (parameter version) and returns text and other release info. See details in documentation.

Example:

name: Create a release
  on:
    push:
      tags:
        - 'v*'
jobs:
  release:
    - name: Checkout source
      uses: actions/checkout@v4
    - id: changelog
      name: Parse Changelog
      uses: taminomara/cl-keeper@v1
      with:
        version: ${{ github.ref }}
    - name: Create GitHub release
      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
      with:
        prerelease: ${{ fromJSON(steps.changelog.outputs.is-pre-release) }}
        draft: ${{ fromJSON(steps.changelog.outputs.is-unreleased) }}
        body: |
          ## Changelog

          ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.text }}

Installation

Install via pipx:

pipx install cl-keeper

Release files for cl-keeper 1.0.1

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for cl-keeper 1.0.1
File	Size	Uploaded
cl_keeper-1.0.1.tar.gz	123.5 kB	May 12, 2026	Details

Built distribution (wheel)

Table of built distributions (wheels) for cl-keeper 1.0.1
File	Interpreter	ABI	Platform	Reset
cl_keeper-1.0.1-py3-none-any.whl 42.3 kB May 12, 2026	Python 3	none	any	Details

Total release size: 165.7 kB

Release files / cl_keeper-1.0.1.tar.gz

Download URL	cl_keeper-1.0.1.tar.gz
Size	123.5 kB
Tags	Source
SHA-256 checksum How to use checksums	`d0f94b9e50742a904aa170030f0a713f3883fa525e6a380a1692d7ce2aacfa89`
BLAKE2b-256 checksum How to use checksums	`7c18fcc892fc4412a9b9240cbaca4f00b331b55def6579581aecae2bb3c834c4`
Upload date	May 12, 2026
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? What is trusted publishing?	Yes
Uploaded via	`twine/6.1.0 CPython/3.13.12`

Release files / cl_keeper-1.0.1-py3-none-any.whl

Download URL	cl_keeper-1.0.1-py3-none-any.whl
Size	42.3 kB
Tags	Python 3
SHA-256 checksum How to use checksums	`45aedd93e1d48b30035d608a9f3112a3af4ee3d17023548a39940c80b87053a4`
BLAKE2b-256 checksum How to use checksums	`c0b054616bfe1aeba72efbb22e571a1c7c3d2d42b5fa74ae086d1af51fa91ebd`
Upload date	May 12, 2026
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? What is trusted publishing?	Yes
Uploaded via	`twine/6.1.0 CPython/3.13.12`