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

Image

Project / Files

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

# Recolor a logo's foreground to black (keeps the background)
recolor logo.png

# Recolor a logo's foreground to a custom color (hex or R,G,B)
recolor logo.png --color '#1a73e8'
recolor logo.png --color 0,178,179

# 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
recolor logo.png             →  logo_revised.png
contactsheet ./photos        →  photos_sheet.jpg

License

MIT