SnipStore 📋

Your personal code snippet manager — save, search, run and share from the terminal.

Tired of digging through old projects to find that one function you wrote months ago? SnipStore is a lightweight CLI tool that lets you save, organize, search, run, and share code snippets — all from your terminal.

Features

• 📝 Save snippets — interactively or via pipe
• 🔍 Search — find snippets by name, content, or tags
• ▶️ Run snippets — execute Python, Bash, JavaScript, and more directly
• 📋 Clipboard support — copy any snippet with one command
• 🏷️ Tag system — organize snippets with tags
• 📤 Export/Import — backup and restore as JSON
• 🔗 Share — upload to paste.rs and get a link
• ✏️ Edit — open in your $EDITOR
• 🎨 Beautiful output — powered by Rich
• 💾 Local storage — everything stored in ~/.snipstore/

Installation

git clone https://github.com/zehedisodef1-oss/snipstore.git
cd snipstore
pip install -e .

Quick Start

# Add a snippet interactively
snip add hello_world

# Add from a pipe
echo 'print("Hello, World!")' | snip add hello

# Add with tags and language
snip add fetch_data -t api http python -l python

# List all snippets
snip list

# Filter by tag
snip list -t api

# Get and copy to clipboard
snip get hello

# Search snippets
snip search "database"

# Run a snippet
snip run hello

# Edit in your editor
snip edit hello

# Share via paste.rs
snip share hello

# Export all snippets
snip export -o backup.json

# Import from file
snip import backup.json

# Delete a snippet
snip delete hello

Commands

Command	Description
snip add <name>	Add a new snippet (interactive or pipe)
snip get <name>	View a snippet and copy to clipboard
snip list	List all snippets
snip search <keyword>	Search snippets by keyword
snip run <name>	Execute a saved snippet
snip export	Export all snippets to JSON
snip import <file>	Import snippets from JSON
snip share <name>	Share via paste.rs
snip edit <name>	Edit in $EDITOR
snip delete <name>	Delete a snippet

Storage

All snippets are stored locally in ~/.snipstore/snippets.json. No cloud, no accounts, no tracking.

Dependencies

• Rich — beautiful terminal output
• requests — for sharing via paste.rs

License

MIT

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Made with ❤️ for developers who live in the terminal.