ChatGPT Dump to Text Python Script

Adam Owada

Hooray for GPT-4's 128k token limit! This Python script copies all of your project code into a text file for easy use with ChatGPT. See the provided project_structure.txt which is an example of the script ran inside this project.

Attribution: ChatGPT helped me with about 80% of the code.

Usage

• Go to a desired project folder in your terminal and run $ text
• A new file named project_structure.txt will be created in the root of the project
• This will contain the tree of your project and the contents of all UTF-8 encoded files
• Feel free to add/modify the IGNORE_DIRS or EXTENSIONS variables inside text to ignore specified folders or add extension mappings
• You can also run $ text -c or $ text --copy which will create project_structure.txt and copy the contents to your clipboard

Install Instructions

1. Clone the repository or download the project as a .zip
2. Create a Python virtual environment
3. pip install from the requirements.txt
4. Make text executable: $ chmod +x text
5. Modify the shebang line 1 in text to point to your virtual environment's interpreter
6. Modify your .bashrc or .zshrc file to add the folder to your $PATH
7. Restart your terminal
8. You can now use $ text!