indico-cli 0.1.1

CLI tool for interacting with Indico event management systems

indico-cli

Command line interface for interacting with Indico event management systems.

Installation

# Run directly with uvx (recommended)
uvx indico-cli --help

# Or install with pip
pip install indico-cli

Configuration

Set environment variables:

export INDICO_BASE_URL="https://indico.cern.ch"
export INDICO_API_TOKEN="indp_..."  # Bearer token from Indico preferences

Or use the configure command to save credentials:

indico-cli configure --base-url https://indico.cern.ch --token indp_...

API tokens can be generated at <your-indico-url>/user/preferences/api. Required scopes: read:legacy_api, write:legacy_api (for create operations), read:user (optional).

Usage

Search

# Full-text search across all content types
indico-cli search-by-term --term "machine learning"

# Search events in a category
indico-cli search-events --category-id 4648 --from-date 2025-01-01

# Browse categories
indico-cli search-categories --category-id 0

Event Details

# Get event info with contributions and sessions
indico-cli event-details --event-id 137346 --contributions --sessions

# List contributions/talks
indico-cli contributions --event-id 137346 --subcontributions

Files

# List and download all event files
indico-cli files --event-id 137346

# List files without downloading
indico-cli files --event-id 137346 --no-download

# Download a single attachment
indico-cli download --url "https://indico.cern.ch/event/.../file.pdf"

Create Events

# Create a simple meeting
indico-cli create-event --title "Team Meeting" --category-id 4648 --type meeting \
  --start 2025-06-15T09:00:00 --end 2025-06-15T10:00:00

# Create event with full agenda from JSON file
indico-cli create-event-with-agenda --title "Workshop" --category-id 4648 \
  --type meeting --start 2025-06-15T09:00:00 --end 2025-06-15T17:00:00 \
  --agenda-file agenda.json

All Commands

Run indico-cli --help to see all available commands, or indico-cli <command> --help for command-specific options.

Claude Code Skill

A Claude Code skill package is available in skill/ for AI-assisted Indico workflows. Install it with:

claude plugin install ./skill

Documentation

• Indico HTTP API docs
• Indico platform