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Fast, modern CLI framework for Rust

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$5,378

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$13,498.70

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Phil Hansch

$500 USD since Jan 2022

Will Buckner

$430 USD since Mar 2022

Incognito

$265 USD since Nov 2021

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$245 USD since Aug 2020

$190 USD since Mar 2023

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$140 USD since Jun 2022

Christoph Grabo

$85 USD since Dec 2023

Juan Campa

$75 USD since Jun 2021

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$72 USD since Aug 2020

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$50 USD since Oct 2023

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$4,300 USD since Aug 2020

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$4,289.14 USD since Apr 2024

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$3,012.92 USD since Nov 2022

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$748 USD since Oct 2021

Databento

$425 USD since Jan 2026

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$300 USD since May 2023

Stencila

$155 USD since Sep 2023

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$100 USD since Jan 2022

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$5.14 USD since Oct 2022

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Pavan Kumar S...

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Embark

Gold

$4,300 USD

GitHub Sponsors

$4,289 USD

THANKS.DEV

$3,013 USD

Rust Fund

$955 USD

Sentry

$748 USD

Phil Hansch

$500 USD

Will Buckner

Bronze

$430 USD

Databento

Gold

$425 USD

Materialize

Bronze

$300 USD

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Monthly financial contribution to Clap (Gold)

Credit from Databento to Clap • April 2, 2026

+$100.00USD

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Contribution #918124

GitHub Sponsors Contributions

Credit from GitHub Sponsors to Clap • April 1, 2026

+$204.00USD

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Monthly financial contribution to Clap (Backer)

Credit from Stencila to Clap • April 1, 2026

+$5.00USD

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Contribution #694328

Today’s balance

$13,498.70 USD

Total raised

$14,659.98 USD

Total disbursed

$1,161.28 USD

Estimated annual budget

$5,377.75 USD

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Faster development with tiny bounties

When we started Open Source Collective for Clap, we (the maintainers) had a discussion on what to do with the money. We have some maintenance expenses @kbknapp is currently paying out of his pocket every ye...

Published on August 14, 2020 by Pavan Kumar Sunkara

Clap on OpenCollective

Your favourite CLI framework is now on OpenCollective.We are opening this to offset some maintenance costs and also fund some minor issues in the future in order to engage more outside contributors.We would also love to send some free sw...

Published on May 27, 2020 by Pavan Kumar Sunkara

About

Clap is used to parse and validate the string of command line arguments provided by a user at runtime. You provide the list of valid possibilities, and clap handles the rest. This means you focus on your applications functionality, and less on the parsing and validating of arguments.

Clap provides many things 'for free' (with no configuration) including the traditional version and help switches (or flags) along with associated messages. If you are using subcommands, clap will also auto-generate a help subcommand and separate associated help messages.

Once clap parses the user provided string of arguments, it returns the matches along with any applicable values. If the user made an error or typo, it informs them with a friendly message and exits gracefully (or returns a Result type and allows you to perform any clean up prior to exit). Because of this, you can make reasonable assumptions in your code about the validity of the arguments prior to your applications main execution.

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Pavan Kumar S...

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