aider/website/docs/scripting.md
Paul Gauthier 7bd8d26f95 copy
2024-06-05 21:05:15 -07:00

89 lines
2.8 KiB
Markdown

---
nav_order: 900
---
# Scripting aider
You can script aider via the command line or python.
## Command line
Aider takes a `--message` argument, where you can give it a natural language instruction.
It will do that one thing, apply the edits to the files and then exit.
So you could do:
```bash
aider --message "make a script that prints hello" hello.js
```
Or you can write simple shell scripts to apply the same instruction to many files:
```bash
for FILE in *.py ; do
aider --message "add descriptive docstrings to all the functions" $FILE
done
```
User `aider --help` to see all the command line options, but these are useful for scripting:
```
--stream, --no-stream
Enable/disable streaming responses (default: True) [env var:
AIDER_STREAM]
--message COMMAND, --msg COMMAND, -m COMMAND
Specify a single message to send GPT, process reply then exit
(disables chat mode) [env var: AIDER_MESSAGE]
--message-file MESSAGE_FILE, -f MESSAGE_FILE
Specify a file containing the message to send GPT, process reply,
then exit (disables chat mode) [env var: AIDER_MESSAGE_FILE]
--yes Always say yes to every confirmation [env var: AIDER_YES]
--auto-commits, --no-auto-commits
Enable/disable auto commit of GPT changes (default: True) [env var:
AIDER_AUTO_COMMITS]
--dirty-commits, --no-dirty-commits
Enable/disable commits when repo is found dirty (default: True) [env
var: AIDER_DIRTY_COMMITS]
--dry-run, --no-dry-run
Perform a dry run without modifying files (default: False) [env var:
AIDER_DRY_RUN]
--commit Commit all pending changes with a suitable commit message, then exit
[env var: AIDER_COMMIT]
```
## Python
You can also script aider from python:
```python
from aider.coders import Coder
from aider.models import Model
# This is a list of files to add to the chat
fnames = ["greeting.py"]
model = Model("gpt-4-turbo", weak_model="gpt-3.5-turbo")
# Create a coder object
coder = Coder.create(main_model=model, fnames=fnames)
# This will execute one instruction on those files and then return
coder.run("make a script that prints hello world")
# Send another instruction
coder.run("make it say goodbye")
```
See the
[Coder.create() and Coder.__init__() methods](https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/aider/coders/base_coder.py)
for all the supported arguments.
It can also be helpful to set the equivalend of `--yes` by doing this:
```
from aider.io import InputOutput
io = InputOutput(yes=True)
# ...
coder = Coder.create(client=client, fnames=fnames, io=io)
```