PYSPDXTOOLS(1)

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version 0.8.3 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 PYSPDXTOOLS 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the user commands section of the manual, and honestly? you're about to have a great time. this is pyspdxtools, version 0.8.3, and she's a whole vibe. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

pyspdxtools — no cap, this is the manual page for pyspdxtools 0.8.3. that's the whole name section. short, sweet, iconic. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pyspdxtools [OPTIONS]

that's it. that's the whole thing. you just hand her some options and she goes. 🦋

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so picture this: it's a CLI tool and its entire job is validating SPDX documents and converting between RDF, TAGVALUE, JSON, YAML and XML formats. like, a full format glow-up. ✨

the way she knows which format you want? the file endings, bestie. she reads the extension and just knows. iykyk.

to use it, you literally just run:

pyspdxtools --infile <input file name> --outfile <output file name>

and she handles the rest. main character energy fr fr. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -i, --infile TEXT — the file holding the document you wanna validate or convert. [required] — like, you genuinely cannot skip this one, she's not doing anything without it. 🙈
  • -o, --outfile TEXT — the file you want the converted document written to. write a dash to send the output to stdout, or just omit the whole option if you're not doing any conversion at all. oh and — if you also add the --graph option to your command, the generated graph gets written to this file. one file, two possible destinies. 💫
  • --version TEXT — the SPDX version to be used during parsing and validation. your choices are "SPDX-2.2" or "SPDX-2.3". if you don't provide one, she'll just read it from the document itself. self-sufficient queen. 💅
  • --novalidation — don't validate the provided document. that's it. she'll just skip the whole validation step, no questions asked. 🧚
  • --graph — generate a relationship graph from the input file. the generated graph is saved to the file you specified with --outfile. ⭐
heads up bestie: for this feature you need to install the optional dependencies networkx and pygraphviz. no install, no graph. that's the deal. 😭
  • --help — show this message and exit. the classic. the og. the "help i forgot what i'm doing" button. 🫶

that's the whole page, babe. go forth and validate. 🌈

this has been pyspdxtools 0.8.3, from September 2025, and yes, that version and date are the real ones — source and version, on the record, periodt. 💖✨

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