https://github.com/simonw/help-scraper

Record a history of --help for various commands
https://github.com/simonw/help-scraper

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Record a history of --help for various commands

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/simonw/help-scraper
• Owner: simonw
• Created: 2022-01-29T00:01:59.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-12-18T15:04:51.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-19T05:07:13.690Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: git-scraping
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 204 MB
• Stars: 47
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# help-scraper

[![Scrape latest help](https://github.com/simonw/help-scraper/actions/workflows/scrape.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/simonw/help-scraper/actions/workflows/scrape.yml)

Record a history of `--help` for various commands

See [Help scraping: track changes to CLI tools by recording their --help using Git](https://simonwillison.net/2022/Feb/2/help-scraping/) for the background of this project.

This repository installs tools and records the output of their `--help` commands, to track changes made to them over time.

- [flyctl/](flyctl/) - the [flyctl](https://github.com/superfly/flyctl/) management tool by [Fly.io](https://fly.io/)

- [aws/](aws/) - the Amazon Web Services [CLI interface](https://aws.amazon.com/cli/)

- [azure/](azure/) - the Azure [CLI tool](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli). Scraper contributed by [@techknowlogick](https://github.com/techknowlogick).

- [vercel/](vercel/) - the `vercel` management tool by [Vercel](https://vercel.com/)

- [sqlite3-help.md](sqlite3-help.md) - the output of `.help` in the `sqlite3` CLI tool

The repo also tracks changes made to some GraphQL schemas:

- [flyctl/fly.graphql](flyctl/fly.graphql) ([history](https://github.com/simonw/help-scraper/commits/main/flyctl/fly.graphql)) for `https://api.fly.io/graphql`

- [github/github.graphql](github/github.graphql) ([history](https://github.com/simonw/help-scraper/commits/main/github/github.graphql)) for `https://api.github.com/graphql`

## More help scrapers

- Jason Hall has a help scraper for the `gcloud` CLI tool at https://github.com/imjasonh/gcloud-help

- Michael Warkentin has a help scraper for the `sentry-cli` CLI tool at https://github.com/mwarkentin/sentry-cli-help