typer

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    <em>Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints.</em>
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**Documentation**: [https://typer.tiangolo.com](https://typer.tiangolo.com)

**Source Code**: [https://github.com/fastapi/typer](https://github.com/fastapi/typer)

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Typer is a library for building <abbr title="command line interface, programs executed from a terminal">CLI</abbr> applications that users will **love using** and developers will **love creating**. Based on Python type hints.

It's also a command line tool to run scripts, automatically converting them to CLI applications.

The key features are:

* **Intuitive to write**: Great editor support. <abbr title="also known as auto-complete, autocompletion, IntelliSense">Completion</abbr> everywhere. Less time debugging. Designed to be easy to use and learn. Less time reading docs.
* **Easy to use**: It's easy to use for the final users. Automatic help, and automatic completion for all shells.
* **Short**: Minimize code duplication. Multiple features from each parameter declaration. Fewer bugs.
* **Start simple**: The simplest example adds only 2 lines of code to your app: **1 import, 1 function call**.
* **Grow large**: Grow in complexity as much as you want, create arbitrarily complex trees of commands and groups of subcommands, with options and arguments.
* **Run scripts**: Typer includes a `typer` command/program that you can use to run scripts, automatically converting them to CLIs, even if they don't use Typer internally.

## FastAPI of CLIs

**Typer** is [FastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com)'s little sibling, it's the FastAPI of CLIs.

## Installation

First, [install `uv`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/), and then add **Typer** to your project:

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```console
$ uv add typer
---> 100%
```

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This installs both the Typer library and the `typer` command in the project's virtual environment. To use `typer` directly with shell completion, [activate the project environment and install completion](tutorial/install.md#activate-the-virtual-environment).

If you prefer to use `pip`, install `typer` inside a virtual environment. See the [installation guide](tutorial/install.md) for the al