A command line client for MySQL with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
Homepage: https://mycli.net Documentation: https://mycli.net/docs
Mycli is compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, TiDB, and Apache Doris.
Postgres Equivalent: https://pgcli.com
If you already know how to install Python packages, then you can install mycli
via pip. This pakage is always up to date.
You might need sudo on Linux.
pip install -U 'mycli[all]'or, only on macOS (fzf and pygments are optional):
brew update && brew install mycli fzf pygmentsor, only on Debian or Ubuntu (fzf and pygments are optional):
sudo apt-get install mycli fzf python3-pygmentsSee
mycli --help- Auto-completion as you type for SQL keywords as well as tables, views, columns, enums, and more!
- Fuzzy history search using fzf.
- Syntax highlighting using Pygments.
- Smart-completion (enabled by default) will suggest context-sensitive completion.
SELECT * FROM <tab>will only show table names.SELECT * FROM users WHERE <tab>will only show column names.
- Support for multiline queries.
- Favorite queries with optional positional parameters. Save a query using
/fs <alias> <query>and execute it with/f <alias>. - Timing of sql statements and table rendering.
- Log every query and its results to a file (disabled by default).
- Pretty print tabular data (with colors!).
- Support for SSL connections
- Shell-style trailing redirects with
$>,$>>and$|operators. - Support for querying LLMs with context derived from your schema using
/llm. - Support for storing passwords in the system keyring.
Mycli creates a config file ~/.myclirc on the first run; you can use the
options in that file to configure the above features, and more.
Some features are only exposed as key bindings.
mycli is written using prompt_toolkit and other Python libraries.
If you're interested in contributing to this project, first of all we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude. We've written a small doc to describe how to get mycli running in a development setup.
https://github.com/dbcli/mycli/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
These are some alternative ways to install mycli that are not managed by our team but provided by OS package maintainers. OS packages could be somewhat out of date.
If present, the fzf package can be used for fuzzy history search, and
pygemtize can be used for syntax highlighting within the fuzzy history
search. The less package is also expected, but almost always already
installed.
You can install the mycli package available in the AUR. fzf and
python-pygments are optional:
yay -S mycli fzf python-pygmentsOn Debian and Ubuntu distributions, you can easily install the mycli package
using apt. The fzf and python3-pygments packages are optional:
sudo apt-get install mycli fzf python3-pygmentsFedora has a package available for mycli; install it using dnf. The fzf and
python-pygments packages are optional:
sudo dnf install mycli fzf python-pygments
Install the less pager, for example by scoop install less.
Follow the instructions on this blogpost: https://web.archive.org/web/20221006045208/https://www.codewall.co.uk/installing-using-mycli-on-windows/
The libraries used in mycli are Windows-compatible, but there are known limitations according to the test suite. The basics work without any modifications, but isn't supported software at this time.
PRs to address shortcomings on Windows would be welcome!
Mycli is more compatible with WSL than with native Windows, though still not 100% perfect. This is a good option for using mycli on Windows.
PRs to complete WSL support would be welcome!
This project was funded through kickstarter. Our thanks to the backers who supported the project.
A special thanks to Jonathan Slenders for creating Python Prompt Toolkit, which is quite literally the backbone library, that made this app possible. Jonathan has also provided valuable feedback and support during the development of this app.
Click is used for command line option parsing and printing error messages.
Thanks to PyMysql for a pure Python adapter to MySQL databases.
Mycli is tested on macOS (full), Linux (full), Windows (partial), and WSL (partial), and requires Python 3.10 or better.
To connect to MySQL versions earlier than 5.5, you may need to set the
following in ~/.myclirc:
[connection]
# character set for connections without --charset being set at the CLI
default_character_set = utf8
or set --charset=utf8 when invoking MyCLI.
For more information on using and configuring mycli, check out our documentation.
Common topics include: