ecosyste-ms-cli 1.4.2

CLI for ecosyste.ms API

Ecosystems CLI

The cli is still in a development phase. Some aspects of documentation or dev-x are lacking and some aspects of this software might have bugs.

A command-line interface for interacting with ecosyste.ms APIs.

Installation

Requirements:

• Python >= 3.9

# Clone the repository
git clone [e-mail]:ecosyste-ms/ecosyste_ms_cli.git
cd ecosyste_ms_cli

# Set up virtual environment and install dependencies
make setup

Usage

Each command includes helpful examples in its help text. Use --help with any command to see usage examples.

# Show available commands
ecosystems --help

Global Options

• --timeout: Set the timeout in seconds for all HTTP requests (default: 20 seconds)
• --format: Set the output format (default: table). Available formats: table, json, tsv, jsonl

Output Formats

The CLI supports multiple output formats:

# Example: Set a 30-second timeout for all requests
ecosystems --timeout 30 repos topics

# Example: Get output in JSON format
ecosystems --format json repos topics

# Example: Get output in TSV format (tab-separated values)
ecosystems --format tsv repos topics

# Example: Get output in JSONL format (JSON Lines)
ecosystems --format jsonl repos topics

Available Commands

The CLI provides access to various ecosyste.ms APIs. Each command group corresponds to an API endpoint:

• advisories - Security advisories and vulnerability data
• archives - Package archive analysis
• commits - Repository commit data
• dependabot - Dependabot integration data
• diff - File and archive comparison
• docker - Docker image metadata
• issues - Repository issues and pull requests
• licenses - License detection and analysis
• opencollective - Open Collective funding data
• packages - Package registry information
• parser - Dependency file parsing
• repos - Repository data and metadata
• resolve - Dependency resolution
• sbom - Software Bill of Materials generation
• sponsors - GitHub Sponsors data
• summary - Aggregated summaries
• timeline - Event timeline data

Use --help with any command for detailed usage and examples.

Examples

• ecosystems packages package npmjs.org react --format json | jq '.name'

Documentation

• Development Guide - Information about development, testing, and release processes
• MCP Server - [Experimental] Model Context Protocol server for AI assistants
• License - MIT License details