richrs

A Rust port of the Rich Python library for beautiful terminal output.

Overview

richrs brings the power of Python's Rich library to Rust, providing beautiful terminal output with colors, styles, tables, progress bars, and more. The API is designed to feel Rust-native while maintaining pixel-perfect compatibility with Python Rich output.

use richrs::prelude::*;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut console = Console::new();
    console.print("[bold red]Hello[/] [green]World![/]")?;
    Ok(())
}

Features

Installation

Add to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
richrs = "0.1"

Optional Features

[dependencies]
richrs = { version = "0.1", features = ["syntax", "markdown"] }

Quick Start

Text Styling

use richrs::prelude::*;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut console = Console::new();

    // Print with markup
    console.print("[bold magenta]Welcome[/] to [italic cyan]richrs[/]!")?;

    // Print styled text
    console.print("[bold red]Error:[/] Something went wrong")?;

    Ok(())
}

Panels

use richrs::prelude::*;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut console = Console::new();

    let panel = Panel::new("Hello from richrs!")
        .title("Greeting")
        .subtitle("A Rust port of Rich");

    console.write_segments(&panel.render(60))?;
    Ok(())
}

Tables

use richrs::prelude::*;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut console = Console::new();

    let mut table = Table::new();
    table.add_column(Column::new("Planet"));
    table.add_column(Column::new("Moons"));
    table.add_column(Column::new("Rings"));

    table.add_row_cells(["Earth", "1", "No"]);
    table.add_row_cells(["Mars", "2", "No"]);
    table.add_row_cells(["Saturn", "146", "Yes"]);

    console.write_segments(&table.render(50))?;
    Ok(())
}

Trees

use richrs::prelude::*;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut console = Console::new();

    let mut tree = Tree::new("project");
    tree.add(
        TreeNode::new("src")
            .with_child(TreeNode::new("main.rs"))
            .with_child(TreeNode::new("lib.rs")),
    );
    tree.add(TreeNode::new("Cargo.toml"));

    console.write_segments(&tree.render())?;
    Ok(())
}

Progress Bars

use richrs::prelude::*;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut progress = Progress::new();
    let task = progress.add_task("Downloading", Some(100), true);

    for _ in 0..100 {
        progress.advance(task, 1)?;
        std::thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(20));
    }

    Ok(())
}

Spinners

use richrs::prelude::*;
use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut spinner = Spinner::new("dots")?;

    for _ in 0..50 {
        print!("\r{} Loading...", spinner.next_frame());
        thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(80));
    }

    println!("\rDone!          ");
    Ok(())
}

Status (Spinner with Message)

use richrs::prelude::*;
use std::time::Duration;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let status = Status::new("Processing data...", "dots")?;

    status.run(Duration::from_secs(3), || {
        // Your long-running operation here
    })?;

    Ok(())
}

Prompts

use richrs::prelude::*;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    // Text prompt
    let name = Prompt::new("What is your name?").ask()?;

    // Confirmation
    let proceed = Confirm::new("Continue?").default(true).ask()?;

    // Integer with validation
    let age = IntPrompt::new("Enter your age")
        .min(0)
        .max(150)
        .ask()?;

    Ok(())
}

Syntax Highlighting

Requires the syntax feature.

use richrs::prelude::*;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut console = Console::new();

    let code = r#"
fn main() {
    println!("Hello, world!");
}
"#;

    let syntax = Syntax::new(code, "rust")
        .line_numbers(true)
        .theme("base16-ocean.dark");

    console.write_segments(&syntax.render(80))?;
    Ok(())
}

Markdown

Requires the markdown feature.

use richrs::prelude::*;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut console = Console::new();

    let md = "# Hello\n\nThis is **bold** and *italic* text.";
    let markdown = Markdown::new(md);

    console.write_segments(&markdown.render(80))?;
    Ok(())
}

Live Display

use richrs::prelude::*;
use std::time::Duration;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut live = Live::new();

    for i in 0..10 {
        live.update(&format!("Count: {}", i))?;
        std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(500));
    }

    Ok(())
}

Pretty Printing

use richrs::prelude::*;
use std::collections::HashMap;

fn main() {
    let mut data = HashMap::new();
    data.insert("name", "Alice");
    data.insert("role", "Developer");

    // Pretty print any Debug type
    let output = inspect(&data);
    eprintln!("{}", output);
}

Style Reference

Text Attributes

Colors

Standard colors: black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white

Bright variants: bright_red, bright_green, bright_blue, etc.

256-color palette: color(196)

Demo

Run the interactive demo to see all features in action:

git clone https://github.com/olirice/richrs
cd richrs
cargo run --release

Minimum Supported Rust Version

richrs requires Rust 1.85 or later.

Dependencies

Required

• crossterm - Terminal capabilities
• unicode-width - Unicode text width calculation
• unicode-segmentation - Unicode grapheme handling
• thiserror - Error handling
• regex - Markup and pattern parsing
• once_cell - Lazy initialization

Optional

• syntect - Syntax highlighting (feature: syntax)
• pulldown-cmark - Markdown parsing (feature: markdown)

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

Acknowledgments

• Textualize for the original Rich library
• The Rust community for excellent terminal libraries