paperless-cli

CLI tool to interact with paperless-ngx remote API

Subcommands

• upload: Uploads local document(s) to Paperless instance.
• consume: Consumes a local directory and uploads each file to Paperless instance. The files will be deleted once uploaded.
• bulk-download: Downloads all documents at once.

Installation

Go: go install github.com/ccremer/paperless-cli@latest

Docker: docker run ghcr.io/ccremer/paperless-cli:latest

Binary:

wget https://github.com/ccremer/paperless-cli/releases/latest/download/paperless-cli_linux_amd64
chmod +x paperless-cli_linux_amd64
sudo mv paperless-cli_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/paperless-cli

Deb:

wget https://github.com/ccremer/paperless-cli/releases/latest/download/paperless-cli_linux_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i paperless-cli_linux_amd64.deb
rm paperless-cli_linux_amd64.deb

RPM:

wget https://github.com/ccremer/paperless-cli/releases/latest/download/paperless-cli_linux_amd64.rpm
sudo rpm -i paperless-cli_linux_amd64.rpm
rm paperless-cli_linux_amd64.rpm

Systemd Service

The consume subcommand is a long-running process that is best run as a daemon. The Deb/RPM packages come with a SystemD unit file.

Enable SystemD consume service:

sudo ${EDITOR:-nano} /etc/default/paperless-cli
sudo systemctl enable paperless-consume
sudo systemctl start paperless-consume

Configuration

Most config options of each command can be specified as both CLI flag and as an environment variable. Run each command with --help to view the variables names (if supported).

Additionally, some options can be specified in a YAML file. Run init subcommand to initialize a new config file with the supported options.

Why does this exist?

I didn't find any other projects or means to consume a directory that uploads the documents via API. In my case, I can't configure the scanner to directly upload to the consume dir as setup by paperless-already, I have to watch the dir on a different host. So I created a tool that also watches a directory, but uploads them to Paperless instead.

Other projects that I've found:

• https://github.com/stgarf/paperless-cli (archived, doesn't upload or consume)

Development

Requirements

• go
• docker
• docker-compose (if running local test instance of paperless-ngx)
• goreleaser (if building deb/rpm packages locally)

Build

Run go run . --help to directly invoke the CLI for testing purposes. Run make help to see a list of available targets.

Commonly used:

• make build: Build the project
• make local-install: Start paperless-ngx in docker-compose (http://localhost:8008, user admin:admin)