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Rendobar

Rendobar CLI

Serverless video processing from your terminal.
Watermark, transcode, caption, render videos with one command.

Website • Docs • SDK • Latest Release

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Rendobar CLI rendering a video in the cloud

Install

The Rendobar CLI ships as a standalone binary for macOS, Linux, and Windows. No Node or npm dependency.

macOS / Linux

curl -fsSL https://rendobar.com/install.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://rendobar.com/install.ps1 | iex

Verify

rb --version
rb doctor

Pin a version

RENDOBAR_VERSION=v1.0.0 curl -fsSL https://rendobar.com/install.sh | sh
$env:RENDOBAR_VERSION='v1.0.0'; irm https://rendobar.com/install.ps1 | iex

Uninstall

curl -fsSL https://rendobar.com/uninstall.sh | sh
# add RENDOBAR_PURGE=1 to also wipe auth tokens under ~/.rendobar
irm https://rendobar.com/uninstall.ps1 | iex

Inspect before running

The install/uninstall scripts are source-visible in this repo. rendobar.com/install.sh redirects here — download and read first if you prefer.

Quick start

# Authenticate
rb login

# Watermark a video
rb ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "drawtext=text='PREVIEW':fontsize=48:fontcolor=white@0.5" output.mp4

# Run rb with no args to see the welcome screen and all available commands
rb

Full usage: rendobar.com/docs/cli/

Auto-update

The CLI notifies you of new releases on the next run after a check. Update with:

rb update

Self-replaces the binary in-place with checksum verification and automatic rollback if the new binary fails.

What is Rendobar?

Rendobar is a serverless media processing platform — watermark, transcode, caption, render videos with one API call. Credit-based billing. MCP-native for AI agents.

This repository

This is the public source + distribution repository for the Rendobar CLI. It contains:

  • Full CLI source (TypeScript, bundled via Bun)
  • Binary releases for macOS, Linux, and Windows (see Releases)
  • Tests, workflows, issue templates
  • License

Bug reports, feature requests, and pull requests are welcome.

Contributing

git clone https://github.com/rendobar/cli.git
cd cli
pnpm install
pnpm test
pnpm typecheck
pnpm dev -- --version

Build a standalone binary locally:

pnpm build
./rb --version

Commit messages must follow Conventional Commits. Releases and version bumps are automated by release-please.

Support

License

MIT — see LICENSE.