---
name: "bean-bake"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "beancount"
version: "2.3.5-2"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bean-bake"
---

# bean-bake(1)

bake a static web view of a Beancount ledger

## NAME

bean-bake - bake a static web view of a Beancount ledger

## DESCRIPTION

usage: bean-bake \[-h\] \[--version\] \[--port PORT\] \[-q\] \[--debug\] \[--incognito\]

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  \[--no-source\] \[--no-colons\] \[--view VIEW\] \[--public\] \[--first-month FIRST\_MONTH\] \[--render-all-pages\] filename output

Bake a Beancount input file's web files to a directory hierarchy. You provide a Beancount filename, an output directory, and this script runs a server and a scraper that puts all the files in the directory, and if your output name has an archive suffix, we automatically the fetched directory contents to the archive and delete them.

### options:

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit

- **--version**, **-V**

  show program's version number and exit

### Web server arguments:

- filename

  Beancount input filename to serve.

- **--port** PORT

  Which port to listen on.

- **-q**, **--quiet**

  Don't even print out web server log

- **--debug**

  Enable debugging features (auto-reloading of css).

- **--incognito**

  Filter the output in order to hide all the numbers. This is great for demos using my real file.

- **--no-source**

  Don't render the source.

- **--no-colons**

  Don't render colons in filenames (for Windows).

- **--view** VIEW

  Render only the specified view (identify by URL)

- **--public**, **--inaddr-any**

  Bind server to listen to any address, not just localhost.

- **--first-month** FIRST\_MONTH

  The first month of the calendar year.

### Bake process arguments:

- output

  The output directory or archive name. If you specify a filename with a well-known extension,we automatically archive the fetched directory contents to this archive name and delete them.

- **--render-all-pages**, **--full**

  Don't ignore some of the more numerious pages, like monthly reports.