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

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

Quick Start

1. Setup

Run the interactive setup to configure your Bing authentication:

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:

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

2. Generate Images

# 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 <num> | -n | 4 | Number of images to generate | | --output <dir> | -o | ./output | Output directory for images |

Commands

image-wizard setup

Configure authentication cookies for Bing Image Creator.

image-wizard <prompt> [options]

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:

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

Development

# 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