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Record a history of --help for various commands

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Record a history of --help for various commands

See Help scraping: track changes to CLI tools by recording their --help using Git 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/ - the flyctl management tool by Fly.io
  • aws/ - the Amazon Web Services CLI interface
  • azure/ - the Azure CLI tool. Scraper contributed by @techknowlogick.
  • vercel/ - the vercel management tool by Vercel
  • 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 (history) for https://api.fly.io/graphql
  • github/github.graphql (history) 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