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Code2Docs: An AI-powered, open source CLI tool for generating inline code documentation, API references, database schema docs, and project READMEs from your codebase.

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🚀 Code2Docs CLI

Code2Docs is an AI-powered CLI tool that helps you generate high-quality documentation for your codebase — including inline docstrings, API documentation, database schema descriptions, and project READMEs.

⚠️ This project is still under active development. Expect new features and improvements regularly.

📚 Base Repo: https://github.com/xKarinSan/Code2Docs
💬 Community Discord: https://discord.gg/qugCeYBYud 🌐 Landing Page: https://code2docs-open-source.netlify.app/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/code2docs

✨ Features

  • 📄 Inline documentation (docstrings + inline comments) beta
  • 📡 API endpoint documentation (coming soon)
  • 🧩 Database schema documentation (coming soon)
  • 📘 README.md generation (coming soon)
  • 🗂️ Architecture diagram generation beta

🔐 Requirements

  • Python 3.8 or newer
  • An OpenAI API key
  • A Git-initialized codebase

🧪 Installation

  1. Install the CLI:

    pip install code2docs-cli
    
  2. Run the CLI to verify the installation:

    c2d
    

🚀 Getting Started

To begin using Code2Docs:

  1. Make sure your project is inside a Git repository.
  2. Get your OpenAI API key from platform.openai.com.
  3. Save your API key locally using:
c2d save-key sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  1. You’re ready to generate documentation!

🛠️ CLI Commands

--help

Lists ALL the commands for Code2Docs CLI

code-doc(Beta)

Generates inline documentation (docstrings and comments) for your codebase.

c2d code-doc

api-doc (Coming Soon)

Generates documentation for your API endpoints.

c2d api-doc

db-doc (Coming Soon)

Generates documentation for your database schema.

c2d db-doc

readme-doc (Coming Soon)

Generates a project-level README.md based on your codebase.

c2d readme-doc

archi-doc (Beta)

Generates an architecture diagram based on the structure of your codebase.

c2d archi-doc

save-key

Saves your OpenAI API key locally for authentication.

c2d save-key sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

load-key

Displays the currently saved OpenAI API key.

c2d load-key

--help

Displays all available commands and usage.

c2d --help

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