Image Wizard CLI


> Generate AI images from text prompts in your terminal using Bing's DALL-E 3 service

Features

- Interactive setup wizard for authentication
- Generate multiple images at once
- Custom output directories
- Beautiful CLI interface powered by @clack/prompts
- Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Bundled Python backend - no manual Python setup required

Prerequisites

- Node.js 18+ or Bun
- Python 3.7+ (for the image generation backend)

> Python dependencies are installed automatically when you install this package.

Installation

``bash
npm install -g @involvex/image-wizard-cli
`

Quick Start

$3

Run the interactive setup to configure your Bing authentication:

`bash
image-wizard setup
`

This will open bing.com in your browser and guide you through extracting your authentication cookies.

Manual Cookie Extraction (if needed):

Open bing.com in your browser, open DevTools (F12), and run in the console:

`javascript
console.log(
_U:\n${document.cookie.match(/(?:^|;\s)_U=(.?)(?:;|$)/)[1]}\n\nSRCHHPGUSR:\n${document.cookie.match(/(?:^|;\s)SRCHHPGUSR=(.?)(?:;|$)/)[1]},
);
`

$3

`bash


Basic usage

image-wizard "A photo of an astronaut riding a horse on Mars"

With options

image-wizard "A futuristic city at sunset" -n 4 -o ./output

Short options

image-wizard "A beautiful landscape" --number 6 --output my-images
`

Options

| Option | Short | Default | Description |
| ---------------- | ----- | ---------- | ---------------------------- |
| --number | -n | 4 | Number of images to generate |
| --output

| -o | ./output | Output directory for images |

Commands

$3

Configure authentication cookies for Bing Image Creator.

$3

Generate images from a text prompt.

Configuration

Config file locations by platform:

- Windows: %APPDATA%\image-wizard-cli-nodejs\Config\config.json
- macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/image-wizard-cli-nodejs/config.json
- Linux: ~/.config/image-wizard-cli-nodejs/config.json

Example config:

`json
{
"auth_cookie_u": "your-u-cookie-here",
"auth_cookie_srchhpgusr": "your-srchhpgusr-cookie-here",
"output_dir": "./output",
"num_images": 4
}
`

Development

`bash


Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/involvex/image-wizard-cli.git

Install dependencies

bun install

Run in development mode

bun run dev "A test prompt"

Build for production

bun run build

Run tests

bun test
``

Tech Stack

- Runtime: Node.js / Bun
- Language: TypeScript
- CLI Framework: Commander.js
- UI Library: @clack/prompts
- Python Integration: execa
- Backend: bing-create (bundled)

License

MIT © involvex

Funding

GitHub Sponsors