molieregen 0.1.0

Generate invoices and quotes with style.

📦 Molière

Generate elegant invoices and quotes from JSON and HTML templates – right from your terminal.

Molière is a simple but powerful CLI tool for developers, freelancers, and small businesses to create beautiful PDF invoices and quotes from JSON files and customizable HTML/CSS templates.

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🚀 Features

• Create invoices and quotes in PDF format
• Fully customizable HTML/CSS templates
• Simple JSON-based data structure
• Easily configurable via CLI or config file
• Shell completions support
• Portable and script-friendly

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⚙️ Installation

Install via PyPI:

pip install moliere

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📖 Usage

moliere [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Global Options

Option	Description
--install-completion	Install shell completion for the current shell
--show-completion	Show completion code for manual installation
--help	Show help message and exit

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🛠 Commands

🔧 configure

Interactively configure default paths and values.

moliere configure

This creates or updates the config file at ~/.moliere/config.json.

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🧾 generate

Generate a PDF invoice or quote from a JSON file.

moliere generate ./invoice.json

The output will be saved to the configured output_dir.

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📝 json

Generate a default JSON structure for an invoice or quote.

moliere json invoice > invoice.json
moliere json quote > quote.json

Use this as a starting point and customize the fields as needed.

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⚙️ set-config

Update a single configuration value directly.

moliere set-config template_dir ./my-templates
moliere set-config output_dir ./exports

This modifies the ~/.moliere/config.json file.

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📂 Example Workflow

1. Create a base invoice:

   moliere json invoice > invoice.json
   

2. Edit invoice.json to reflect your client, services, pricing, etc.

3. Generate the PDF:

   moliere generate invoice.json
   

4. Find the output in your configured output directory.

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🎨 Custom Templates

Templates are standard HTML files with placeholders for data.

• Default templates are included with Molière
• You can override by setting a custom template path:

  moliere set-config template_path ./custom_template.html
  

Template files can use basic CSS and HTML along with variables like:

{{ invoice.number }}
{{ client.name }}
{{ items[0].description }}

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🔒 Configuration

Molière stores user preferences in:

~/.moliere/config.json

Example:

{
  "output_dir": "./exports",
  "template_path": "./templates/invoice.html",
  "author_name": "John Doe",
  "default_currency": "EUR"
}

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🧪 Coming Soon

• Multi-language support
• Emailing invoices directly from CLI
• Convert CSV to invoice
• Built-in template gallery

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🤝 Contributing

Pull requests and feedback are welcome!

1. Fork the repo
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/my-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/my-feature)
5. Open a pull request

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🧑‍💻 Author

Made with 💡 by Caribbean Code GitHub: https://github.com/kenyhenry/moiliere.git

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License – see the LICENSE file for details.