nurl/README.md
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# nurl
[![release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/nix-community/nurl?logo=github&style=flat-square)](https://github.com/nix-community/nurl/releases)
[![version](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/nurl?logo=rust&style=flat-square)][crate]
[![deps](https://deps.rs/repo/github/nix-community/nurl/status.svg?style=flat-square&compact=true)](https://deps.rs/repo/github/nix-community/nurl)
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Generate Nix fetcher calls from repository URLs
```console
$ nurl https://github.com/nix-community/patsh v0.2.0 2>/dev/null
fetchFromGitHub {
owner = "nix-community";
repo = "patsh";
rev = "v0.2.0";
hash = "sha256-7HXJspebluQeejKYmVA7sy/F3dtU1gc4eAbKiPexMMA=";
}
```
> If you want to generate Nix packages, feel free check out [nix-init](https://github.com/nix-community/nix-init), which builds on top of nurl
## Supported Fetchers
- builtins.fetchGit
- fetchCrate
- fetchFromBitbucket
- fetchFromGitHub
- fetchFromGitLab
- fetchFromGitea
- fetchFromGitiles
- fetchFromRepoOrCz
- fetchFromSourcehut
- fetchHex
- fetchPypi
- fetchgit
- fetchhg
- fetchsvn
## Usage
```
Usage: nurl [OPTIONS] [URL] [REV]
Arguments:
[URL] URL to the repository to be fetched
[REV] The revision or reference to be fetched
Options:
-S, --submodules[=<SUBMODULES>] Fetch submodules instead of using the fetcher's default [possible
values: true, false]
-f, --fetcher <FETCHER> Specify the fetcher function instead of inferring from the
URL [possible values: builtins.fetchGit, fetchCrate,
fetchFromBitbucket, fetchFromGitHub, fetchFromGitLab,
fetchFromGitea, fetchFromGitiles, fetchFromRepoOrCz,
fetchFromSourcehut, fetchHex, fetchPypi, fetchgit, fetchhg,
fetchsvn]
-F, --fallback <FALLBACK> The fetcher to fall back to when nurl fails to infer it from
the URL [default: fetchgit] [possible values:
builtins.fetchGit, fetchCrate, fetchFromBitbucket,
fetchFromGitHub, fetchFromGitLab, fetchFromGitea,
fetchFromGitiles, fetchFromRepoOrCz, fetchFromSourcehut,
fetchHex, fetchPypi, fetchgit, fetchhg, fetchsvn]
-n, --nixpkgs <NIXPKGS> Path to nixpkgs (in nix) [default: <nixpkgs>]
-i, --indent <INDENT> Extra indentation (in number of spaces) [default: 0]
-H, --hash Only output the hash
-j, --json Output in json format
-p, --parse Parse the url without fetching the hash, output in json
format
-a, --arg <NAME> <EXPR> Additional arguments to pass to the fetcher
-A, --arg-str <NAME> <STRING> Same as --arg, but accepts strings instead Nix expressions
-o, --overwrite <NAME> <EXPR> Overwrite arguments in the final output, not taken into
consideration when fetching the hash
-O, --overwrite-str <NAME> <STRING> Same as --overwrite, but accepts strings instead Nix
expressions
-e, --expr <EXPR> Instead of fetching a URL, get the hash of a fixed-output
derivation, implies --hash and ignores all other options
-l, --list-fetchers List all available fetchers
-L, --list-possible-fetchers List all fetchers that can be generated without --fetcher
-s, --list-sep <SEPARATOR> Print out the listed fetchers with the specified separator,
only used when --list-fetchers or --list-possible-fetchers is
specified
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
```
## Comparison to [nix-prefetch](https://github.com/msteen/nix-prefetch)
- `nurl` infers the fetcher from the URL. For `nix-prefetch`, you need to pick the fetcher and supply the arguments manually.
- `nix-prefetch` relies on FOD which is slow, `nurl` tries to use alternatives when possible.
- `nix-prefetch` is more configurable and supports file attributes.
- `nix-prefetch` has an interface similar to `nix-build`.
- `nurl` has some nice features dedicated to generated packages (`--indent`, `--list-possible-fetchers`).
## Changelog
See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md)
[crate]: https://crates.io/crates/nurl