devbits 1.0.0

A lightweight CLI toolkit for daily development utilities.

devbits

A lightweight CLI toolkit for daily development utilities — video/image processing, project file management, and more.

Installation

pip install devbits

Requires Python ≥ 3.9.

Usage

All commands are available in two ways:

# As subcommands of devbits
devbits <command> [options]

# As standalone commands
<command> [options]

Use --help on any command for detailed usage and parameter descriptions:

devbits clipvideo --help
clipvideo --help

Commands

Video

Command	Description
clipvideo	Trim a video by time (seconds) or frame range. Includes --gui for browser-based editing.
video2images	Extract frames from a video.
video2gif	Convert a video (or a portion) to animated GIF.
images2video	Assemble an image sequence into an MP4 video.
images2gif	Assemble an image sequence into an animated GIF.
resizevideo	Re-encode a video at a different resolution.

Image

Command	Description
resizeimage	Resize a single image (preserves aspect ratio by default).
image2ico	Convert an image to a multi-size ICO file.
batchimages	Batch resize or convert all images in a folder.
checkimages	Scan for broken / corrupt image files.
contactsheet	Generate a thumbnail grid (contact sheet) from a folder of images.

Project / Files

Command	Description
clearcache	Remove __pycache__ and other Python cache directories.
tree	Print a directory tree.
size	List the largest files / folders, sorted by size.
renamefiles	Batch rename files sequentially.
samplefiles	Copy or move the first N files to another folder.

Examples

# Trim video from 5s to 20s
clipvideo movie.mp4 --start 5.0 --end 20.0

# Open interactive clip editor in the browser
clipvideo movie.mp4 --gui

# Convert video to GIF (3.5s–10s at 15 fps)
video2gif movie.mp4 --start 3.5 --end 10.0 --fps 15

# Extract every 5th frame as PNG
video2images movie.mp4 --every 5 --format png

# Batch resize images to 800×600
batchimages ./photos -o ./resized --size 800,600

# Clean Python caches
clearcache . --all

Output Defaults

When -o / --output is omitted, the output filename is derived from the input:

clipvideo movie.mp4          →  movie_clip.mp4
video2gif movie.mp4          →  movie.gif
resizeimage photo.jpg        →  photo_resized.jpg
contactsheet ./photos        →  photos_sheet.jpg

License

MIT