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DiffyCli

Command-Line tool for interacting with Diffy.

Great for building integrations for your CI/CD tools. Allows scription taking screenshots, diffs, comparing environments.

Usage

Manual Installation

Download latest release from https://github.com/DiffyWebsite/diffy-cli/releases page. Download just diffy.phar file. No need for all the source code. You can copy file to your executables so it is available everywhere.

Installion with Composer

Authentication

You need to obtain a Key to interact with API. This can be done from Profile.

Once you have a key -- run

This will save the key for future usages.

Commands

Take screenshots

PROJECT_ID is an ID of the project. You can get it from URL of your project. ENVIRONMENT is one of "production", "staging", "development" (short options: "prod", "stage", "dev")

You can use --wait key to wait for the screenshot to be completed.

As a result you will get an ID of the screenshot.

Also, you can create diff with custom name:

Compare screenshots with id SCREENSHOT_ID1 and SCREENSHOT_ID2

or compare with baseline

or in case of custom environments (also set the name for the diff to be "custom")

or in case of custom environment with basic auth credentials

or with existing screenshots

Allowed environments are: prod, stage, dev, custom (long options: production, staging, development).

Update project(s)

If you want to update your config (For example, from CICD)

See the ./examples/diffy_update_project.json or ./examples/diffy-project-projectID-demo-test-project.yaml file for a valid config file.

For multiple projects

The PROJECT_ID is defined by the key inside the JSON object.

Create project(s)

Similar you can create a project by passing the config file.

You can create multiple projects by giving an array of projects.

Get project information

Get the full settings of the project

Get list of diffs

PROJECT_ID is an ID of the project. You can get it from URL of your project. PAGE_NUMBER is number of the page results (starts from 0)

Baseline

There are two commands available to work with baseline set

Create screenshots from images

Github integration

Main documentation page http://diffy.website/documentation/github-integration

The only difference you will need to have is to pass commit sha to compare operation:

BrowserStack integration

If you have Automate Pro plan or higher we can use Screenshot API to generate screenshots and send them to Diffy.

For that you need following steps.

Save credentials. They can be obtained at account setting page.

Get a list of all possible browsers available to choose which ones you would like to use.

Run process of taking screenshots

LambdaTest integration

If you have Live plan or higher we can use Screenshot API to generate screenshots and send them to Diffy.

For that you need following steps.

First you need to save credentials. They can be obtained at account setting page. You need to pass your Username and Access Token.

Get a list of all possible browsers available to choose which ones you would like to use.

Run process of taking screenshots

Once the job is completed you can see screenshots set appeared in your project.

Examples

Take a look at folder with Examples. This is a collection of shell scripts that aim to give you an idea how CLI tool can be used in your CI pipelines.

Development

Prerequisites

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If you wish to build the phar for this project, install the box phar builder via:

Installing

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It may then be sufficient to install via:

End with an example of getting some data out of the system or using it for a little demo.

Running the tests

The test suite may be run locally by way of some simple composer scripts:

Deployment

Add additional notes about how to deploy this on a live system.

If your project has been set up to automatically deploy its .phar with every GitHub release, then you will be able to deploy by the following procedure:

• Edit the VERSION file to contain the version to release, and commit the change.
• Run composer release

Built With

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• Composer - Dependency Management
• Robo - PHP Task Runner
• Symfony - PHP Framework

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the releases page.

Authors

• Yuriy Gerasimov - created project from template.

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details