CLI tool

TTP comes with simple CLI tool that takes path to data, path to template and produces parsing results. Results can be represented in one of formats supported by CLI tool - yaml, json, raw or pprint, results will be printer to screen. Alternatively, format can be specified using template output tags and printed to screen or returned to file using returners.

Sample usage:

ttp --data "/path/to/data/" --template "path/to/template.txt" --outputter json

results will be printed to screen in JSON format.

Available options

  • -d, --data Path to data file or directory with files to process

  • -dp, --data-prefix OS base path to folder with data separated across additional folders as specified in TTP input tags

  • -t, --template Path to text file with template content

  • -tn, --template-name Name of template within file referenced by -t option if file has python (.py) extension

  • -o, --outputter Format results using yaml, json, raw or pprint formatter and prints them to terminal

  • -ot, --out-template Name of template to output results for

  • -l, --logging Logging level - “DEBUG”, “INFO”, “WARNING”, “ERROR”, “CRITICAL”

  • -lf, --log-file OS path to file where to write logs instead of printing them to terminal

  • -T, --Timing Print simple timing information to screen about time spent on parsing data

  • s,  --structure Final results structure - ‘list’, ‘dictionary’ or ‘flat_list’

  • -v,  --vars JSON string containing variables to add to TTP object

  • --one Forcefully run parsing using single process

  • --multi Forcefully run parsing in multiple processes