CodeCapsule 🚀📦

Overview

CodeCapsule is a powerful Python utility that transforms entire project directories into a single, portable JSON file. Perfect for sharing code with AI models, archiving projects, or creating compact code representations.

Features

• 🌐 Convert entire project structures to JSON
• 🧩 Supports multiple programming languages
• 🔍 Configurable file inclusion/exclusion
• 💡 Ideal for LLM code analysis and sharing

Installation

Install CodeCapsule using pip:

pip install codecapsule

Quick Start

Basic Usage

# Convert current project to JSON
codecapsule

# Convert a specific project directory
codecapsule /path/to/your/project

# Save to a specific output file
codecapsule /path/to/project -o project_capsule.json

# Convert project directory and ignore additional patterns
codecapsule /path/to/project -i "*.log" -i "temp/"

Filtering and Handling

CodeCapsule provides robust file processing with the following features:

• 🚫 Automatically excludes:

  • Binary files
  • Large executables (.exe, .dll, .so)
  • Compiled Python files (.pyc)
  • Version control directories (.git)
  • Virtual environments (.venv)
  • Development databases

• 🔍 File Content Detection

  • Uses UTF-8 encoding
  • Skips files that cannot be decoded
  • Detects binary files using null-byte heuristic

Example Output

[
  {
    "path": "src/main.py",
    "content": "# Full contents of the Python file"
  },
  {
    "path": "README.md", 
    "content": "# Project documentation"
  }
]

Limitations

• Large files may impact performance
• Only text-based files are processed
• Some binary or complex file types are automatically excluded

Use Cases

• 📤 Sharing entire project contexts with AI models
• 🗄️ Lightweight project archiving
• 🔬 Code analysis and exploration

License

BSD-3 License - See LICENSE file for details.

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• No external dependencies

Disclaimer

CodeCapsule is designed for code sharing and analysis. Always review JSON contents before sharing sensitive code.