SNIPIO is a cross platform single binary tool to work with draw io files

With snipio you can do the following operations:

• list all layers in a drawing
• delete a layer from a drawing
• export a layer from a drawing
• unpack a mxfile
• classify a drawing as draft
• merge 2 drawings

snipio show layers will show all available layers in a drawio document. It requires you to specify the document file with the parameter -f or --file.

Example: snipio show layers -f mydrawiofile.xml

snipio delete layer will delete a layer from the draw.io document. it requires the input file with the parameter -f or --file. Also the name of the layer has to be provided via the flag -n or --name. Optionally you can specify the output file with the flag -o or --output. If no output file is provided the results will be written to a file named export.xml.

Example: snipio delete layer -f mydrawiofile.drawio -n layer1 -o precessedfile.xml

snipio export layer will export the selected layer from the draw.io document to a new file. It requires the input file with the parameter -f or --file. Also the name of the layer has to be provided via the flag -n or --name. Optionally you can specify the output file with the flag -o or --output. If no output file is provided the results will be written to a file named export.xml.

Example: snipio export layer -f mydrawiofile.drawio -n layer1 -o precessedfile.xml

snipio unpack will convert a mxfile to a xml file. It requires the input file with the parameter -f or --file. Optionally you can specify the output file with the flag -o or --output. If no output file is provided the results will be written to the console.

Example: snipio unpack -f mydrawiofile.drawio

snipio classify draft will add a layer on top of the document with a draft watermark. It requires the input file with the parameter -f or --file. Optionally you can specify the output file with the flag -o or --output. If no output file is provided the results will be written into a file named export.xml.

Example: snipio classify draft -f -f mydrawiofile.drawio

snipio merge -f mydrawiofile.drawio -m drawiofileToBeMerged.xml -o processedfile.xml will merge 2 drawio files. It requires the input file with the parameter -for --file. Also the name of the file which will be merged has to be provided via the flag -m or --merge-file the output file with the flag -o or --output. If no output file is provided the results will be written into a file named export.xml.

Example: snipio merge -f mydrawiofile.drawio -m fileToBeMerged.xml -o processedfile.xml

Right now there are no pre-builds to download. Might come in the future.

• Please install the go programming language. Follow the instructions at https://go.dev/.
• Clone the repo
• run go install in the directory of the repo. That's it.
• you could also use go run main.go to run it. Or go build main.go to build a binary for yourself.

That's it! Have fun.