Tolgee CLI 🐁

A CLI tool to interact with Tolgee directly from your terminal.

The Tolgee CLI lets you pull strings from the Tolgee platform into your projects, push local strings to the Tolgee platform, extract strings from your code, and much more!

Installation

The Tolgee CLI is published as a NPM package. You simply need to install it, and you're good to go!

# npm
npm i --global @tolgee/cli

# Yarn
yarn global add @tolgee/cli

# pnpm
pnpm add --global @tolgee/cli

See our documentation for more information.

Docker Installation

Alternatively, you can use the Docker image:

# Pull the latest image
docker pull tolgee/cli:latest

# Run directly
docker run --rm tolgee/cli:latest --help

# Create an alias for easier usage
alias tolgee="docker run --rm -v \$(pwd):/workspace -w /workspace tolgee/cli:latest"

The Docker images are available on Docker Hub and support multiple platforms (linux/amd64, linux/arm64).

Usage

Once installed, you'll have access to the tolgee command. Run tolgee help to see all the supported commands, their options and arguments.

Make sure to give the docs a look!

Authentication

Run tolgee login with no arguments to sign in through your browser — you approve the CLI on a Tolgee consent screen and no key is generated, copied or pasted. It needs a browser on the same machine as the CLI, since the sign-in finishes by redirecting to a local address the CLI is listening on. With --no-browser the CLI prints the URL instead of opening one; the browser you open it in still has to reach this machine.

tolgee login                # browser sign-in
tolgee login <API key>      # a Personal Access Token or Project API Key, as before
tolgee login --list         # what you are signed in as, per instance
tolgee logout               # ends the session on the server too
tolgee logout --project     # drops only the API key stored for one project

If you approve the sign-in for a single project, the CLI takes that project from the approval, so commands need no --project-id and no projectId in .tolgeerc — the same way a project API key names its own project. Approving all projects leaves the choice to you, so name the project as before.

On a machine with no browser — CI, a container, an SSH session without port forwarding — use an API key, either with --api-key or through the TOLGEE_API_KEY environment variable. Browser sign-in refuses outright in CI, --no-browser included, rather than waiting for an approval that cannot come. If the CI guess is wrong and someone can approve the sign-in, set TOLGEE_BROWSER_LOGIN_IN_CI=1.

Browser sign-in requires a Tolgee instance running the OAuth authorization server; against one that does not, the CLI says so and points you at API keys.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Check out HACKING.md for some information about the project internals and information about the workflow.

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