The parse command parses source files using a Tree-sitter parser. You can pass any number of file paths and glob patterns to tree-sitter parse, and it will parse all the given files. The command will exit with a non-zero status code if any parse errors occurred.

tree-sitter parse [OPTIONS] [PATHS]... # Aliases: p

The path to a file that contains paths to source files to parse.

The path to the directory containing the grammar.

The language scope to use for parsing. This is useful when the language is ambiguous.

Outputs parsing and lexing logs. This logs to stderr.

Compile the parser with debug flags enabled. This is useful when debugging issues that require a debugger like gdb or lldb.

Outputs logs of the graphs of the stack and parse trees during parsing, as well as the actual parsing and lexing message. The graphs are constructed with graphviz dot, and the output is written to log.html.

Compile and run the parser as a Wasm module.

Output the parse tree with graphviz dot.

Output the parse tree in XML format.

Output the parse tree in a pretty-printed CST format.

Show parsing statistics.

Set the timeout for parsing a single file, in microseconds.

Print the time taken to parse the file. If edits are provided, this will also print the time taken to parse the file after each edit.

Suppress main output.

Apply edits after parsing the file. Edits are in the form of row,col|position delcount insert_text where row and col, or position are 0-indexed.

Set the encoding of the input file. By default, the CLI will look for the BOM to determine if the file is encoded in UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE. If no BOM is present, UTF-8 is the default. One of utf8, utf16-le, utf16-be.

When using the --debug-graph option, open the log file in the default browser.

Output parsing results in a JSON format.

The path to an alternative configuration (config.json) file. See the init-config command for more information.

Parse a specific test in the corpus. The test number is the same number that appears in the output of tree-sitter test.

Force a rebuild of the parser before running tests.

Omit the node's ranges from the default parse output. This is useful when copying S-Expressions to a test file.