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
69665877074640896	163eZ
69665877074640897	ciLhXHb

$ snowdrop decode 163eZ
id:           69665877074640896
hex:          0x00f780bf00000000
base62:       163eZ
timestamp:    16220351
machine-id:   0
sequence:     0
window-start: 2026-07-12T05:47:19.424Z (1783835239424 ms, epoch 1767225600000 ms)

$ snowdrop encode 69665877074640896
163eZ

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