Simple Ruby Trello Command Line Interface
Install the trello_cli gem
gem install trello_cli
Or install using docker via the instructions provided by @jamesmstone.
docker pull jamesmstone/trello
Sign-in to trello.com as the user you want to use for trello_cli.
Get API key (open this link in a web browser):
https://trello.com/1/appKey/generate
The top field contains your Developer API Key. Use it to replace YOUR_API_KEY in the member token links below as well as the TRELLO_DEVELOPER_PUBLIC_KEY environment variable.
Next, get a member token. You will need to replace YOUR_API_KEY in the links below with the API key obtained in the previous step.
To get a read only member token:
https://trello.com/1/connect?key=YOUR_API_KEY&name=trello-cli&response_type=token
To get a read / write member token:
https://trello.com/1/authorize?key=YOUR_API_KEY&name=trello-cli&expiration=never&response_type=token&scope=read,write
Set the api key and member token environment variables:
export TRELLO_DEVELOPER_PUBLIC_KEY=api_key
export TRELLO_MEMBER_TOKEN=member_token
The CLI takes the following form:
trello TARGET COMMAND OPTIONS
To see a list of targets:
# trello -h
trello [board|card|list] [command] OPTIONS
Append -h for help on specific target.
To see a list of commands for a given target:
# trello card -h
Valid commands for card: create, list
For further help, append -h to sub command.
To see help for a specific command:
# trello card create -h
Usage: trello card [create] [options]
-b, --board [BOARD] Trello Board Id
-d, --description [DESCRIPTION] Description Of Card
-l, --list [LIST] List Of Card
-n, --name [NAME] Name Of Card
docker run -it --rm \
-e TRELLO_DEVELOPER_PUBLIC_KEY=$TRELLO_DEVELOPER_PUBLIC_KEY \
-e TRELLO_MEMBER_TOKEN=$TRELLO_MEMBER_TOKEN \
jamesmstone/trello
To allow for piping output to other utilies, the output of any command can be format as either TSV (Tab Seperated Values) or JSON.
JSON Output
# trello board list -o json
[{"name":"board1","id":"123456781234567812345678"},{"name":"board2","id":"876543218765432187654321"}]
This can be used with tools like jq to parse the data:
# trello board list -o json |jq '.[0] | {id}'
{
"id": "123456781234567812345678"
}
TSV Output
# trello board list -o tsv
123456781234567812345678 board1
876543218765432187654321 board2
For example, you can grep out specific cards and then cut specific fields:
# trello board list -o tsv |grep board1 |cut -d$'\t' -f 1
123456781234567812345678
The default is currently set to output as legacy to match previous versions of the trello CLI. This will be changed to TSV or another human format in a future release.
List the boards available to the given credentials:
trello board list
List the lists for a given board id and output as a TSV list:
trello list list -b 123 -o tsv
Create a card and output as JSON:
trello card create -b 123 -l 321 -n 'card name' -d 'card description' -o json
If you find yourself adding the same arguments, it can be helpful to create a wrapper script. For example see trello.sh.
git checkout -b my-new-feature
)git commit -am 'Add some feature'
)git push origin my-new-feature
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