snowdrop-id-cli

snowdrop — command-line tool for generating, encoding, and decoding Snowdrop IDs: 63-bit, roughly monotonic, Snowflake-interchangeable identifiers with a very short base62 form.

Install

$ cargo install snowdrop-id-cli

Usage

$ snowdrop generate -n 2
198358378861297664	37mXl
198358378861297665	ciYFJPE

$ snowdrop decode 37mXl
id:           198358378756440064
hex:          0x02c0b5e500000000
base62:       37mXl
timestamp:    46183909
machine-id:   0
sequence:     0
window-start: 2026-07-02T08:45:22.816Z (1782981922816 ms, epoch 1735689600000 ms)

$ snowdrop encode 198358378756440064
37mXl

Run snowdrop --help for all options (machine ID, count, custom epoch).

For the ID format and generation algorithm, see the specification. The Rust library is the snowdrop-id crate.

License

MIT