clickmd 1.0.3

Markdown rendering for CLI applications with syntax highlighting

clickmd

Markdown rendering for CLI applications with syntax highlighting.

clickmd provides beautiful terminal output with:

• 🎨 Syntax highlighting for code blocks (Python, TypeScript, JSON, YAML, Bash, etc.)
• 📝 Markdown rendering with headers, bold, links, and more
• 🔧 Zero dependencies for core functionality
• 🖱️ Optional Click integration for CLI decorators

Installation

# Core package (no dependencies)
pip install clickmd

# With Click support
pip install clickmd[click]

Quick Start

Basic Usage (No Dependencies)

from clickmd import md, echo

# Render markdown with syntax highlighting
md("""
# Hello World

This is **bold** and this is a [link](https://example.com).

```python
def greet(name: str) -> str:
    return f"Hello, {name}!"

""")

Smart echo - auto-detects markdown

echo("## Status Update") echo("Regular text without markdown")

### With Click Integration

```python
import clickmd as click

@click.group()
def cli():
    """My awesome CLI tool"""
    pass

@cli.command()
@click.option("--name", "-n", default="World")
def hello(name: str):
    """Say hello"""
    click.md(f"""
## 👋 Hello, {name}!

Welcome to **clickmd** - making CLIs beautiful.
    """)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    cli()

Features

Syntax Highlighting

clickmd provides syntax highlighting for multiple languages:

Language	Extensions	Highlight Features
Python	.py	Keywords, strings, comments, decorators
TypeScript/JavaScript	.ts, .js	Keywords, strings, template literals
JSON	.json	Keys, strings, numbers, booleans
YAML	.yaml, .yml	Keys, values, comments
Bash/Shell	.sh, .bash	Commands, comments
Markdown	.md	Headers, bold, links
Log	.log	Errors (red), warnings (yellow), success (green)

Markdown Elements

from clickmd import md

md("""
# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3

**Bold text** and regular text.

[Links](https://example.com) are supported.

```python
# Code blocks with syntax highlighting
print("Hello, World!")

• List items
• Are rendered
• Correctly """)

### MarkdownRenderer Class

For more control, use the `MarkdownRenderer` class directly:

```python
from clickmd import MarkdownRenderer
import sys

renderer = MarkdownRenderer(use_colors=True, stream=sys.stdout)
renderer.heading(1, "My Title")
renderer.codeblock("python", 'print("Hello!")')

Progress and Status Output

from clickmd import md

# Log-style output with automatic coloring
md("""
```log
🚀 Starting process...
📦 Installing dependencies...
✅ Build successful!
⚠️ Warning: deprecated API
🛑 Error: connection failed

""")

## API Reference

### Core Functions

#### `md(text: str) -> None`
Render markdown text with syntax highlighting.

#### `echo(message, file=None, nl=True, err=False, color=None) -> None`
Smart echo that auto-detects markdown and renders it.

#### `render_markdown(text, text_lang="markdown", stream=None, use_colors=True) -> None`
Low-level markdown rendering function.

#### `get_renderer(stream=None, use_colors=True) -> MarkdownRenderer`
Get a `MarkdownRenderer` instance.

### Click Decorators (requires `click` package)

When `click` is installed, these decorators are available:

- `@clickmd.group()` - Create a command group
- `@clickmd.command()` - Create a command
- `@clickmd.option()` - Add an option
- `@clickmd.argument()` - Add an argument
- `@clickmd.pass_context` - Pass Click context
- `clickmd.Choice` - Choice type
- `clickmd.Path` - Path type

### Constants

- `CLICK_AVAILABLE: bool` - Whether Click is installed

## Examples

See the [examples/](examples/) directory for more usage examples:

- `examples/basic.py` - Basic markdown rendering
- `examples/cli_app.py` - Full CLI application with Click
- `examples/custom_renderer.py` - Custom renderer configuration
- `examples/logging.py` - Log-style colored output

## Development

```bash
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/wronai/clickmd.git
cd clickmd

# Install development dependencies
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run tests
make test

# Run linter
make lint

# Format code
make format

License

Apache License 2.0 - see LICENSE for details.

Author

Created by Tom Sapletta - [e-mail]

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Contributing Guide first.

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