PELICAN(1)

NAME
pelican - tool to generate a static blog

DESCRIPTION
usage: pelican [-h] [-t THEME] [-o OUTPUT] [-s SETTINGS] [-d] [-v] [-q] [-D]

    [--version] [-r] [--print-settings [SETTING_NAME ...]] [--relative-urls] [--cache-path CACHE_PATH] [--ignore-cache] [--fatal errors|warnings] [--log-handler {plain,rich}] [--logs-dedup-min-level {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR}] [-l] [-p PORT] [-b BIND] [-e [OVERRIDES ...]] [path]

A tool to generate a static blog, with restructured text input files.

  positional arguments:

path
    Path where to find the content files. (default: None)

  options:

-h, --help
    show this help message and exit

-t THEME, --theme-path THEME
    Path where to find the theme templates. If not specified, it will use the default one included with pelican. (default: None)

-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
    Where to output the generated files. If not specified, a directory will be created, named "output" in the current path. (default: None)

-s SETTINGS, --settings SETTINGS
    The settings of the application, this is automatically set to pelicanconf.py if a file exists with this name. (default: None)

-d, --delete-output-directory
    Delete the output directory. (default: None)

-v, --verbose
    Show all messages. (default: None)

-q, --quiet
    Show only critical errors. (default: None)

-D, --debug
    Show all messages, including debug messages. (default: None)

--version
    Print the pelican version and exit.

-r, --autoreload
    Relaunch pelican each time a modification occurs on the content files. (default: False)

--print-settings [SETTING_NAME ...]
    Print current configuration settings and exit. Append one or more setting name arguments to see the values for specific settings only. (default: None)

--relative-urls
    Use relative urls in output, useful for site development (default: False)

--cache-path CACHE_PATH
    Directory in which to store cache files. If not specified, defaults to "cache". (default: None)

--ignore-cache
    Ignore content cache from previous runs by not loading cache files. (default: False)

--fatal errors|warnings
    Exit the program with non-zero status if any errors/warnings encountered. (default: )

--log-handler {plain,rich}
    Which handler to use to format log messages. The `rich` handler prints output in columns. (default: rich)

--logs-dedup-min-level {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR}
    Only enable log de-duplication for levels equal to or above the specified value (default: WARNING)

-l, --listen
    Serve content files via HTTP and port 8000. (default: False)

-p PORT, --port PORT
    Port to serve HTTP files at. (default: 8000) (default: None)

-b BIND, --bind BIND
    IP to bind to when serving files via HTTP (default: 127.0.0.1) (default: None)

-e [OVERRIDES ...], --extra-settings [OVERRIDES ...]
    Specify one or more SETTING=VALUE pairs to override settings. VALUE must be in JSON notation: specify string values as SETTING='"some string"'; booleans as SETTING=true or SETTING=false; None as SETTING=null. (default: {})