BEAN-BAKE(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

bean-bake — bake a static web view of a Beancount ledger 🧚✨

(that's BEAN-BAKE(1), bestie — section 1 of the User Commands manuals, we're in the big leagues 💅)

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so picture this: you've got a Beancount input file, and you want a whole cute static website made out of it. That's literally what this does. 💖

It bakes a Beancount input file's web files into a directory hierarchy. You hand it a Beancount filename and an output directory, and this script runs a server and a scraper, and the scraper puts all the files into that directory. And — plot twist — if your output name has an archive suffix, we automatically add the fetched directory contents to the archive and delete them. Slay. 🎀

Here's the usage, verbatim, no edits, iykyk:

usage: bean-bake [-h] [--version] [--port PORT] [-q] [--debug] [--incognito] [--no-source] [--no-colons] [--view VIEW] [--public] [--first-month FIRST_MONTH] [--render-all-pages] filename output

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🦋 options: 🦋

• -h, --help — show this help message and exit (the classic, the icon, the moment you need her most 🫶)
• --version, -V — show program's version number and exit

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👑 Web server arguments: 👑

• filename — the Beancount input filename to serve. This is the one you're showing off. ✨
• --port PORT — which port to listen on.
• -q, --quiet — don't even print out web server log. not a single line. silence. 🤫
• --debug — enable debugging features (auto-reloading of css). live-reload girlies rise 🔥
• --incognito — filter the output in order to hide all the numbers. This is great for demos using my real file. 🕶️ (no numbers, no nosy questions, periodt)
• --no-source — don't render the source.
• --no-colons — don't render colons in filenames (for Windows). rip colons 💀
• --view VIEW — render only the specified view (identify by URL)
• --public, --inaddr-any — bind server to listen to any address, not just localhost. main character energy, the whole network can see her 🌈
• --first-month FIRST_MONTH — the first month of the calendar year.

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🍓 Bake process arguments: 🍓

• output — the output directory or archive name. If you specify a filename with a well-known extension, we automatically archive the fetched directory contents to this archive name and delete them. 📦✨
• --render-all-pages, --full — don't ignore some of the more numerous pages, like monthly reports. every single page gets her moment, no crumbs left behind 💜

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ngl bestie, lowkey the whole thing is just: give her a filename and an output, let her cook. that's the vibe check. 🌸

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and that's the tea 🎀 this was bean-bake 2.3.6, brought to you in April 2024 — go bake something iconic, bestie, you got this 💖💅🦋