nurl

CLI tool to generate Nix fetcher expressions from repository URLs. Automatically prefetches and hashes the source so you can paste the output directly into a Nix derivation.

Usage

# GitHub repo
nurl https://github.com/owner/repo
 
# Specific ref/tag
nurl https://github.com/owner/repo v1.2.3
 
# GitLab
nurl https://gitlab.com/owner/repo
 
# Sourcehut
nurl https://git.sr.ht/~user/repo
 
# PyPI package
nurl --fetcher fetchPypi https://pypi.org/project/requests/
 
# Output as JSON
nurl --json https://github.com/owner/repo

Example output

$ nurl https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij v0.39.2
fetchFromGitHub {
  owner = "zellij-org";
  repo = "zellij";
  rev = "v0.39.2";
  hash = "sha256-FSLbRfxSWY0a9H9iHT3oQ2SXwB70AwyH0Cm8sDZGaUk=";
}

Supported fetchers

• fetchFromGitHub
• fetchFromGitLab
• fetchFromSourcehut
• fetchFromBitbucket
• fetchFromGitea
• fetchgit
• fetchzip
• fetchPypi
• fetchCrate (crates.io)

Flags

Flag	Effect
--fetcher	Force a specific fetcher
--json	Output as JSON
--hash	Output only the hash
--list-fetchers	List all supported fetchers