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feat(cli): export Storybook stories beside many documents (#761)
* feat(cli): export Storybook stories beside many documents

Accept several documents, or a quoted glob such as 'src/**/*.pen', and add --beside to write each document's stories, design images, and manifest into the document's own folder, next to the component's code. Documents export one after another, since documents in one folder share its manifest; a failed document is reported and the rest still export. --watch covers every matched document through one queue. Several documents need --beside or --output, and --page takes a single document.

Refs #727

* fix(cli): resolve Storybook export documents by existence, not glob syntax

Deciding between a path and a pattern by looking for glob characters missed
extglobs, so 'src/+(a|b).pen' was opened as a literal filename, and it flagged
an escaped star, so a file genuinely named that way went to the matcher. The
character list also could not agree with Node's matcher: is-glob rejects a
bare '?', picomatch accepts a parenthesised directory name.

An existing path is now that file, and everything else goes to glob(), which
matches a plain path to itself and expands every pattern it supports.

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Co-authored-by: Danila Poyarkov <dev@dannote.net>
2026-09-30 22:05:51 +04:00

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CLI Reference Complete reference for all openpencil commands, options, and flags.

CLI Reference

All commands accept a .fig file as a positional argument. When omitted, the CLI connects to the running desktop app via RPC.

info

Show document info — pages, node counts, fonts, file size.

openpencil info [file] [--json]
Option Description
--json Output as JSON

tree

Print the node hierarchy.

openpencil tree [file] [options]
Option Description
--page Page name (default: first page)
--depth Max depth (default: unlimited)
--json Output as JSON

find

Search nodes by name or type.

openpencil find [file] [options]
Option Description
--name Node name (partial match, case-insensitive)
--type Node type: FRAME, TEXT, RECTANGLE, INSTANCE, etc.
--page Page name (default: all pages)
--limit Max results (default: 100)
--json Output as JSON

node

Show detailed properties of a node.

openpencil node [file] --id <id> [--json]
Option Description
--id Required. Node ID (e.g. 1:23)
--json Output as JSON

pages

List all pages in the document.

openpencil pages [file] [--json]
Option Description
--json Output as JSON

variables

List design variables and collections.

openpencil variables [file] [options]
Option Description
--collection Filter by collection name
--type Filter by type: COLOR, FLOAT, STRING, BOOLEAN
--json Output as JSON

export

Export to PNG, JPG, WEBP, SVG, JSX, HTML, .fig, or Storybook stories.

openpencil export [file] [options]
Option Alias Description
--format -f png (default), jpg, webp, svg, pdf, pptx, jsx, tailwind-jsx, html, fig, storybook
--output -o Output file path (default: <name>.<format>); a directory for storybook (default: <name>-stories)
--scale -s Export scale (default: 1)
--quality -q Quality 0–100, JPG/WEBP only (default: 90)
--page Page name (default: first page; fig, pptx, and storybook default to every page)
--node Node ID to export (default: all top-level nodes)
--style JSX style: openpencil (default), tailwind (same as -f tailwind-jsx)
--html HTML mode: fragment (default), standalone
--css HTML CSS output: inline (default), tailwind
--assets Standalone HTML assets: inline (default), external
--fonts Standalone HTML font output: assets, none (default)
--framework Storybook framework: react (default), vue, html
--design-images Storybook: render a PNG per variant for the Design panel (default: on; --no-design-images to skip)
--watch Storybook: re-export whenever the document is saved
--beside Storybook: write each document's stories into the document's own folder; the file argument can then be several files or a quoted glob
--thumbnail Export page thumbnail instead of full render
--width Thumbnail width (default: 1920)
--height Thumbnail height (default: 1080)

import

Import HTML/CSS/Tailwind into an editable OpenPencil document.

openpencil import page.html [options]
Option Alias Description
--format -f Output format: fig (default), json
--output -o Output file path (default: <name>.<format>)
--css CSS file to apply before conversion
--css-text Inline CSS text to apply before conversion
--tailwind Tailwind utility candidates to compile and apply
--tailwind-file File containing Tailwind utility candidates
--page-name Scene graph page name (default: DOM/CSS)
--json Print a machine-readable summary

Examples:

openpencil import card.html --css card.css -o card.fig
openpencil import card.html --tailwind "flex flex-col gap-3 w-80 p-6 rounded-xl bg-white" -o card.fig

eval

Execute JavaScript with the Figma Plugin API.

openpencil eval [file] [options]
Option Alias Description
--code -c JavaScript code to execute
--stdin Read code from stdin
--write -w Write changes back to the input file
--output -o Write to a different file
--json Output as JSON
--quiet -q Suppress output

analyze colors

Analyze color palette usage across the document.

openpencil analyze colors [file] [options]
Option Description
--limit Max colors to show (default: 30)
--threshold Distance threshold for clustering similar colors, 0–50 (default: 15)
--similar Show similar color clusters
--json Output as JSON

analyze typography

Analyze font family, size, and weight distribution.

openpencil analyze typography [file] [options]
Option Description
--group-by Group by: family, size, weight (default: show all styles)
--limit Max styles to show (default: 30)
--json Output as JSON

analyze spacing

Analyze gap and padding values across auto-layout frames.

openpencil analyze spacing [file] [options]
Option Description
--grid Base grid size to check against (default: 8)
--json Output as JSON

analyze clusters

Find repeated node patterns — potential components.

openpencil analyze clusters [file] [options]
Option Description
--limit Max clusters to show (default: 20)
--min-size Min node size in px (default: 30)
--min-count Min instances to form a cluster (default: 2)
--json Output as JSON