⚠️ This project was previously named c-3po-cli. Some of the talks, presentations, and documentation may reference it with both names.

Command line utility for ttag translation library. Works out of the box with js, ts, jsx, tsx files.

npm install ttag-cli
# or global
npm install -g ttag-cli

ttag extract some.js

will extract translations to .pot file

--output  -o   result file with translations (.pot)  (default: translations.pot)
--lang  -l   sets default lang (ISO format)  (default: en)
--discover   string overrides babel-plugi-ttag setting - https://ttag.js.org/docs/plugin-api.html#configdiscover. Can be used to discover ttag functions without explicit import.    Only known ttag functions can be used as params (t, jt, ngettext, gettext, _)  
--numberedExpressions   boolean overrides babel-plugin-ttag setting -  https://ttag.js.org/docs/plugin-api.html#confignumberedexpressions. Refer to the doc for the details.  
--extractLocation   string - 'full' | 'file' | 'never' - https://ttag.js.org/docs/plugin-api.html#configextractlocation. Is used to format location comments in the .po file.
--sortByMsgid boolean. Will sort output in alphabetically by msgid. https://ttag.js.org/docs/plugin-api.html#configsortbymsgid

will check if all translations are present in .po file

--lang  -l   sets default lang (ISO format)  (default: en)
--discover   string overrides babel-plugi-ttag setting - https://ttag.js.org/docs/plugin-api.html#configdiscover. Can be used to discover ttag functions without explicit import.    Only known ttag functions can be used as params (t, jt, ngettext, gettext, _)  
--numberedExpressions   boolean overrides babel-plugin-ttag setting -  https://ttag.js.org/docs/plugin-api.html#confignumberedexpressions. Refer to the doc for the details.  

will merge two or more po(t) files together using first non-empty msgstr and header from left-most file

will open interactive prompt to translate all msgids with empty msgstr in cli

--output  -o   result file with translations (.po)  (default: translated.po)

will display various pofile statistics(encoding, plurals, translated, fuzzyness)

will filter pofile by entry attributes(fuzzy, obsolete, (un)translated)

--fuzzy  -f   result file with fuzzy messages (.po)  (default: false)
--no-fuzzy  -nf   result file without fuzzy messages (.po)  (default: false)
--translated  -t   result file with translations (.po)  (default: false)
--not-translated  -nt   result file without translations (.po)  (default: false)
--reference  -r   a regexp to match references against  (default: )

 ttag filter -nt small.po

 msgid "test"
 msgstr ""

will create an empty .po file with all necessary headers for the locale

--lang   sets default locale (ISO format)  (default: en)
--filename   path to the .po file  

will update existing po file. Add/remove new translations

--lang   sets default locale (ISO format)  (default: en)
--pofile   path to .po file with translations  
--src   path to source files/directories  
--discover   string overrides babel-plugi-ttag setting - https://ttag.js.org/docs/plugin-api.html#configdiscover. Can be used to discover ttag functions without explicit import.    Only known ttag functions can be used as params (t, jt, ngettext, gettext, _)  
--numberedExpressions   boolean overrides babel-plugin-ttag setting -  https://ttag.js.org/docs/plugin-api.html#confignumberedexpressions. Refer to the doc for the details.
--extractLocation   string - 'full' | 'file' | 'never' - https://ttag.js.org/docs/plugin-api.html#configextractlocation. Is used to format location comments in the .po file.
--sortByMsgid boolean. Will sort output in alphabetically by msgid. https://ttag.js.org/docs/plugin-api.html#configsortbymsgid

will replace all strings with translations from the .po file

--discover   string overrides babel-plugi-ttag setting - https://ttag.js.org/docs/plugin-api.html#configdiscover. Can be used to discover ttag functions without explicit import.    Only known ttag functions can be used as params (t, jt, ngettext, gettext, _)  
--numberedExpressions   boolean overrides babel-plugin-ttag setting -  https://ttag.js.org/docs/plugin-api.html#confignumberedexpressions. Refer to the doc for the details.  

will output po(t)file with pretty colors on, combine with | less -r

will spellcheck po file messages with given locale, locale can be autodetected from pofile

will validate js template strings (${x}) in messages and translations and against each other

will open pofile in web editor

will parse and output po file as loadable JSON

--pretty  -p   pretty print js  (default: false)
--nostrip  --n   do not strip comments/headers  (default: false)
--format  sets the output JSON format (compact is much smaller)
    [choices: "compact", "verbose", "nested"] [default: "verbose"]

If format is "nested", the json will be nested under a field of which the key is the language field from the po. e.g.,

{
	"zh-CN": {
		"headers": "",
		// ...rest of the po json
	}
}

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