meme-cli

A command line utility to easily make dank memes.

Yes, really.

Installation

Currently, the only way to install this is by cloning the repository and building manually. AUR packages and a crates.io release are planned.

git clone https://github.com/TheRawMeatball/meme-cli
cd meme-cli
cargo install --path meme-cli

Usage Example

# make sure to update your sources after installation, and then again regularly 
meme-cli update-sources
meme-cli generate gru-plan "make memecli" "get it working enough to release it" "you need to write a readme" "you need to write a readme"

will generate the following meme, and put it on your clipboard to easily share it:

Note: if you don't get the meme on your clipboard, you might need to install a clipboard manager or enable image support on your clipboard manager.

Tips and tricks

You can run meme-cli generate-proto-completions to generate some rough completion scripts for your preferred shell. You can install them directly using the instructions for your shell, but I'd recommend extending them to support template completions for meme-cli generate. As an example, if you're using fish, it means adding this line to your completion file:

complete -c meme-cli -n "__fish_seen_subcommand_from generate" -a "(meme-cli list-templates)"

What's all the other crates then???

Glad you asked! meme-cli is but a frontend for the true meme generation powerhouse, memeinator. meme-bevy is a different frontend, but it's used for quickly making the meme templates used by meme-cli instead. You can use it by configuring a local meme repository in ~/.config/memecli.conf.json. The templates you add will go there. If you think others would like them, feel free to make a PR to the official meme repository.

{
  "sources": [
    {
      "GitUrl": {
        "url": "https://github.com/TheRawMeatball/memeinator-memesrc.git",
        "alias": "default"
      }
    },
    {
      "LocalPath": "/home/your-username/memes"
    }
  ]
}

License

I don't know why you'd be interested in the license of such a joke, but if you must, it's dual licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0.