Open-source CLI for the Ignition 8.3 REST API — ignition-cli

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Hey everyone,

With Ignition 8.3 shipping a full REST API, I wanted a proper CLI tool for the operations I kept doing through the web UI or curl scripts. Nothing like that existed, so I built ignition-cli; an open-source Python CLI that wraps the 8.3+ REST API.

What it does:

  • Gateway — status, info, backup, restore, modules, logs
  • Projects — list, show, create, delete, export, import, diff between gateways, watch & sync
  • Tags — browse (recursive tree), read, write, export, import, list providers
  • Devices — list, show, status
  • Resources — generic CRUD for JSON-based resources.
  • Raw API — GET/POST/PUT/DELETE any endpoint, discover endpoints from the OpenAPI spec, download the spec
  • Output — table, JSON, YAML, CSV
ignition-cli config add dev --url https://gateway:8043 --token "keyId:secretKey"
ignition-cli gateway status
ignition-cli project list
ignition-cli tag browse --recursive
ignition-cli project diff MyProject --target-gateway prod
ignition-cli api discover --filter tag

Built with Python (Typer + httpx + Pydantic), MIT licensed, CI/CD friendly.

GitHub: GitHub - floriansmeyers/SFLOW-Ignition-CLI: CLI-Tool for Inductive Automation Ignition 8.3.3+

I'd love feedback; what workflows are painful for you right now that a CLI could help with?

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Well, Claude created, but...

Not really. Have you actually tried? What you've got might handle the 80% case with just a plain config.json data file, but definitely won't handle anything more interesting, like themes/fonts/icons, images in image management, CSV files attached to drivers, etc, etc.

I don't see any API level handling for deployment modes, which would be more interesting I think than just swapping between gateway instances.

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Hello Paul,

To be honest: no.

Currently mainly focused on trying to get my claude-code to work as easy as possible (using Bash) with my Ignition gateway instead of needing to cURL everything.

So; that one is definitely not battle-tested.

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Hi Paul,

Thanks for your feedback a while ago. When still experimenting with the capabilities of AI Agents with the CLI I added some new functionality and tried to address some of the feedback regarding the configs (files, fonts, CSV, ... etc) and the deployment modes.

Both should be working and are integrated.

Open for any other additional feedback from your end.

Best regards,
Florian