cups_printer

Retrieve all printer from a CUPS server. It's a simple command-line tool that allows one to output the existing printers or write them to a file.

Installation

It may require that the development package for CUPS is installed, e.g.,

$ sudo dnf -y install cups-devel

PyPI

The package is hosted on PyPI. It depends on click and pycups.

$ pip3 install cups_printer

Manual setup

$ python3 -m venv
$ source bin/activate
$ python3 setup.py

Development setup

For development, clone the Git repository and create a Python virtual environment.

$ python3 -m venv
$ source bin/activate
$ python3 setup.py develop

Usage

The default CUPS instance which is used is localhost.

$ cups_printers --help
Usage: cups_printers [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  A command line interface for CUPS printers.

Options:
  --version          Show the version and exit.
  -s, --server TEXT  The server URL of CUPS instance.  [default:
                     localhost:631]
  --timeout INTEGER  Timeout for network operations.
  --help             Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  output  Output the retrieved data from a CUPS instance.
  state   Print the current state of all printers.

To get the details from a remote CUPS instance, use --server.

$ cups_printers --server 192.168.191.1:631 output json

License

cups_printers ìs license under MIT.