cli-anything-drawio

A CLI harness for Draw.io, create, edit, and export diagrams from the command line.

Installation

This CLI is installed as part of the cli-anything-drawio package:

pip install cli-anything-drawio

Prerequisites:

• Python 3.10+
• drawio must be installed on your system

Usage

Basic Commands

# Show help
cli-anything-drawio --help

# Start interactive REPL mode
cli-anything-drawio

# Create a new project
cli-anything-drawio project new -o project.json

# Run with JSON output (for agent consumption)
cli-anything-drawio --json project info -p project.json

REPL Mode

When invoked without a subcommand, the CLI enters an interactive REPL session:

cli-anything-drawio
# Enter commands interactively with tab-completion and history

Command Groups

Project

Project management: new, open, save, info.

Command	Description
new	Create a new blank diagram
open	Open an existing .drawio project file
save	Save the current project
info	Show detailed project information
xml	Print the raw XML of the current project
presets	List available page size presets

Shape

Shape operations: add, remove, move, resize, style.

Command	Description
add	Add a shape to the diagram
remove	Remove a shape by ID
list	List all shapes on a page
label	Update a shape's label text
move	Move a shape to new coordinates
resize	Resize a shape
style	Set a style property on a shape
info	Show detailed info about a shape
types	List all available shape types

Connect

Connector operations: add, remove, style.