🪄 Datacmd: auto-generative dashboards from different sources in your CMD

The Ultimate Terminal Dashboard

Turn any data source into a stunning interactive dashboard, directly in your terminal. No fluff, no GUI, just pure terminal sorcery. ⚡

🚀 Why you'll love Datacmd

Tired of bloated web UIs? datacmd brings data visualization back to where real devs live: the terminal.

• ⚡ One Command = Instant Dashboard
• 📊 Dynamic Widgets: Tables, charts, gauges, pies, radars & more
• 🧠 Smart Layout Engine: Auto-generates from data OR use YAML to customize
• 💻 Real-Time Feeds: From APIs, metrics, JSON, CSV
• 🧼 Zero Setup: No deps, no bullshit, just go run

Think of it like htop meets grafana, but cooler and terminal-native.

It follows my obsession with data, which I developed by building https://datastripes.com, the web data engine that transform data analysis into simple flows.

✨ Demo

_{📈 Realtime stock tracker via datacmd --source=stock.json}

🧰 Installation (pick your style)

👉 Option 1: Download prebuilt binary (Recommended)

No setup, no Go, no stress.

✅ macOS · 🪟 Windows · 🐧 Linux

📦 Go to the Releases page and download the latest binary for your OS.

Then:

# macOS / Linux
chmod +x datacmd
./datacmd --generate --source=your-data.csv

# Windows
datacmd.exe --generate --source=your-data.csv

🛠 Option 2: Run from source (for Developers)

git clone https://github.com/VincenzoManto/Datacmd.git
cd datacmd
go mod tidy
go run main.go --generate --source=your-data.csv

🧠 How it works

# Auto-generate a dashboard from any CSV or JSON
datacmd --generate --source=./data.csv

# Or load your own layout
datacmd --config=dashboard.yml

Data sources supported:

• .csv 📂
• .json 📜
• REST APIs 🌐
• Live system metrics (CPU, RAM, disk) 🖥️

🧩 Widgets you can use

• 📋 Table – Paginated, sortable
• 🎯 Gauge – Perfect for usage stats, thresholds
• 🍰 Pie Chart – Categorical comparisons
• 📈 Line Chart – Trends, time-series
• 📡 Radar – Multi-metric comparisons
• 💬 Text Box – Notes, alerts, logs
• 🔢 Number – Big, bold KPIs
• 📊 Funnel – Visualize stages in a process

Customize via YAML, or let --generate do it all.

📦 Installation

git clone https://github.com/VincenzoManto/Datacmd.git
cd datacmd
go mod tidy

🪄 Quick Start

Example: stock.json

[
  {"ticker": "AAPL", "price": 175.50, "volume": 1200000},
  {"ticker": "GOOG", "price": 140.25, "volume": 950000},
  {"ticker": "MSFT", "price": 280.75, "volume": 1500000}
]

go run main.go --generate --source=stock.json

Instantly shows:

• 📋 Table of stocks
• 🎯 Volume gauges
• 🍰 Market share pie chart

🎨 YAML Customization

layout:
  - type: table
    source: stock.json
    fields: [ticker, price, volume]

  - type: pie
    title: "Market Share"
    field: volume

Your dashboard, your rules.

🧬 Inspired by Datastripes. Rebuilt for Power Users.

datacmd is the spiritual open source successor to Datastripes, reimagined with more muscle, more magic, and zero fluff.

Linked resources

Based on datacmd, with the team @ Datatripes, we developed our complete and curated toolkit for data analysis

🤝 Community

We’re building more than a CLI, we’re starting a movement. Star the repo ⭐, submit PRs, file issues, or just show us the wild dashboards you build.

📝 License

Apache 2.0, free as in freedom and fast as in Go.

```txt 🔥 Stop using Grafana for your side projects

I built datacmd, a tool that turns CSV/JSON/API into live dashboards, directly in your terminal

✅ No deps 🪄 Auto layout ⚡ One command

→ https://github.com/VincenzoManto/datacmd