resume-pycli

⚠️ Unmaintained project, replaced by GoResume, still perfectly usable so feel free to fork.

CLI tool to build a beautiful resume from a JSON Resume file.

This is a Python port of resume-cli.

Features

• Validate your resume.json against schema
• Export your resume to HTML
• Export your resume to PDF
• Customize the theme of your HTML and PDF exports
• Run a local HTTP server to preview the HTML export
• Create an inital resume.json with placeholder values to get started

Installation

With pipx:

pipx install resume-pycli

Usage

Usage: resume [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  CLI tool to easily setup a new resume.

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  export    Export to HTML and PDF.
  init      Initialize a resume.json file.
  serve     Serve resume.
  validate  Validate resume's schema.
  version   Show application version.

Export your resume with a custom theme, for exemple one located in ./themes/my-beautiful-theme:

resume export --theme my-beautiful-theme

If you want to export custom version of your resume, for example a shorter one located at ./resume.short.json, to PDF only:

resume export --resume resume.short.json --pdf

Themes

You can put your theme in themes/<name> next to your resume.json file. It uses Jinja as templating engine. Take a look at the included themes that you can take as example to write your own.

Since it uses Jinja, it is not compatible with "official" community themes.