Weblate is libre software web-based continuous localization system, used by over 2500 libre projects and companies in more than 165 countries.

wlc is a Weblate command-line client using Weblate's REST API.

PIP Installation

Install using pip:

pip3 install wlc

Sources are available at https://github.com/WeblateOrg/wlc.

Usage

Please see Weblate documentation for more complete documentation.

Command-line usage:

wlc list-projects
wlc list-components
wlc list-translations
wlc list-languages
wlc show
wlc ls
wlc commit
wlc push
wlc pull
wlc repo
wlc stats
wlc lock
wlc unlock
wlc lock-status
wlc download
wlc upload

Configuration is loaded from --config when provided. Otherwise wlc reads the user configuration from XDG paths such as ~/.config/weblate and then the nearest project configuration file (.weblate, .weblate.ini, or weblate.ini) from the current directory or its parents. The key/values (retries, timeout, allowed_methods, backoff_factor, status_forcelist) are closely coupled with the urllib3 parameters and allows the user to configure request parameters.

[weblate]
url = https://hosted.weblate.org/api/
retries = 3
allowed_methods = PUT,POST,GET
backoff_factor = 0.2
status_forcelist = 429,500,502,503,504
timeout = 30
allow_insecure_http = false
[keys]
https://hosted.weblate.org/api/ = APIKEY

Environment variables

The API URL and key can also be configured using environment variables. This is especially useful for CI workflows where WLC_KEY is injected as a secret:

• WLC_URL — API URL
• WLC_KEY — API key
• WLC_ALLOW_INSECURE_HTTP — set to 1, true, yes, or on to allow API keys over non-local HTTP URLs

When the API URL comes from automatically discovered project configuration (.weblate, .weblate.ini, or weblate.ini in the current directory or a parent directory), unscoped secrets must pin the destination explicitly: WLC_KEY requires WLC_URL, and --key requires --url. URL-scoped keys in the [keys] section continue to work with project configuration.

The configuration precedence (highest to lowest) is:

1. Command-line arguments (--url, --key)
2. Environment variables (WLC_URL, WLC_KEY)
3. Configuration loaded from --config, or from XDG/user config plus the nearest project config when --config is not used

API keys are rejected over non-local http:// URLs by default. Use HTTPS, a loopback HTTP URL for local development, or explicitly opt in with --allow-insecure-http, WLC_ALLOW_INSECURE_HTTP, or allow_insecure_http. Automatically discovered project configuration cannot enable allow_insecure_http; set it in user configuration or pass an explicit --config file instead.

Docker image

The image is published on Docker Hub.

Building locally:

docker build -t weblate/wlc .

Detailed documentation is available in Weblate documentation.

Docker hub tags

You can use following tags on Docker hub:

Every image is tested by our CI before it gets published, so even the bleeding version should be quite safe to use.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See documentation for more information.