nix-init - Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more

Announcement on NixOS Discourse

Features

• Hash prefetching powered by nurl
• Dependency inference for Rust packages using the Riff registry and python projects
• Interactive prompts with fuzzy tab completions
• License detection
• Supported builders
  • stdenv.mkDerivation
  • buildRustPackage
  • buildPythonApplication and buildPythonPackage
  • buildGoModule
• Supported fetchers
  • fetchCrate
  • fetchFromGitHub
  • fetchFromGitLab
  • fetchFromGitea
  • fetchPypi
  • All other fetchers supported by nurl are also supported, you just have to specify the tags manually

Usage

Usage: nix-init [OPTIONS] <OUTPUT>

Arguments:
  <OUTPUT>  The path to output the generated file to

Options:
  -u, --url <URL>        Specify the URL
  -c, --config <CONFIG>  Specify the config file
  -h, --help             Print help
  -V, --version          Print version