Headless

Configure and use Neovate Code in headless mode for automated workflows, CI/CD integration and scripts.

Basic Usage

neovate -q "Review the changes"

parameter	description
`-q, --quiet`	Quiet mode, only output the result
`--output-format <output_format>`	Specify an output format, Options: `stream-json`, `json`, `text`, must be used together with `--quiet`

Use --output-format combined with --quiet to use the headless mode for different purposes. Checkout CLI for more options.

It will output the result in text format.

neovate -q "ping"
# Output: pong

It will output the result in stream JSON format. Each line is a JSON object representing the event during the command execution.

neovate -q --output-format stream-json  "ping"

It will output the result in a single JSON format when the command is completely finished.

neovate -q --output-format json "ping"