Marketing

Placeit

placeit-pp-cli

Every one of Placeit's 164k mockup, logo, video, and design templates — searchable, sortable by real popularity, and cached offline from your terminal, with catalog analytics Placeit's own UI can't do.

Printed by @vcolombo (Vincent Colombo)

Install

npx — recommended

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install placeit

Installs the CLI binary and the agent skill (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more). Add --cli-only or --skill-only for one half. Requires Node.

Hermes

hermes skills install mvanhorn/printing-press-library/cli-skills/pp-placeit --force

From the Hermes CLI. Inside a chat session use /skills install with the same path.

OpenClaw

Install the pp-placeit skill from https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/main/cli-skills/pp-placeit. The skill defines how its required CLI can be installed.

Paste this to your OpenClaw agent — the skill describes how to install its CLI.

Claude Desktop

This CLI ships an MCPB bundle. Download the latest release .mcpb and double-click it — Claude Desktop walks you through the install.

View source on GitHub →

Placeit has no public API, no bulk search, and no offline catalog. This CLI mirrors the entire Algolia-indexed catalog into a local SQLite database, then layers on commands no Placeit tool has: rank results by actual purchase count (top), filter Printify-ready mockups for a POD pipeline (pod), assemble matched Twitch kits (kit), and cross-tabulate the catalog's tag facets (gaps). Search and browse need no login; account and saved-templates use your Placeit session.

Learn more at Placeit.

Created by @vcolombo (Vincent Colombo).

Authentication

Search, browse, sync, and template lookup use Placeit's public Algolia catalog and need no credentials. The account and bookmarks commands read your Placeit (Envato) session, which you import once from Chrome via the auth login step shown in Quick Start. Because Placeit sits behind Cloudflare, the CLI ships a browser-compatible HTTP transport for those calls.

Quick Start

# Check catalog reachability before anything else (no login needed).
placeit-pp-cli doctor

# Search the live catalog by keyword and category.
placeit-pp-cli search "t-shirt mockup" --category mockups --limit 10

# Build a local offline mirror so search and analytics work without the network.
placeit-pp-cli sync --category mockups --max-pages 5

# Rank cached mockups by real purchase count.
placeit-pp-cli top "hoodie" --agent

Unique Features

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Popularity intelligence

top — Rank matching templates by real purchase count, not opaque relevance.

Reach for this when a seller needs the mockups that actually convert, not just the first search hits.
```
placeit-pp-cli top "t-shirt" --category mockups --agent
```
rank — Show a template's purchase percentile within its category and tag cohort.

Reach for this to judge whether a specific template is a strong pick before committing to it.
```
placeit-pp-cli rank 41935 --agent
```

Print-on-demand

pod — Return only Printify-compatible mockups for a query with deep links for a listing pipeline.

Reach for this when batching POD listings so you never open a mockup that isn't print-ready.
```
placeit-pp-cli pod "hoodie" --agent --select stage_link,editor_link
```

Matched sets

kit — Assemble a coherent streamer kit (overlay, panels, emotes, frame) and flag missing slots.

Reach for this when a streamer rebrand needs a visually consistent set, not mismatched single assets.
```
placeit-pp-cli kit "neon gaming" --agent
```

Taxonomy navigation

industry-map — Map the 152-entry industry taxonomy with template counts from your synced mirror.

Reach for this to size a niche and find the industries with the most ready-made templates.
```
placeit-pp-cli industry-map "coffee shop"
```

Monitoring

watch — Persist named searches and report templates newly matching since the last sync.

Reach for this to keep a client niche fresh without re-running searches by hand every week.
```
placeit-pp-cli watch run --agent
```

Catalog analytics

gaps — Pivot the catalog across two tag facets to surface under-served template combinations.

Reach for this to spot mockup coverage gaps (e.g. a device with thin on-model diversity).
```
placeit-pp-cli gaps --facet device_tags --by ethnicity_tags
```

Recipes

Find the best-selling Printify t-shirt mockups

placeit-pp-cli pod "t-shirt" --agent --select name,stage_link,purchases

Filters to Printify-ready mockups and narrows the JSON to just the fields a listing pipeline needs.

Rank cached logos by popularity in a niche

placeit-pp-cli top "coffee shop logo" --category logos --limit 20 --agent

Orders local-mirror matches by real purchase count for agent consumption.

Audit on-model mockup diversity

placeit-pp-cli gaps --facet device_tags --by ethnicity_tags

Cross-tabulates two tag facets to reveal under-served mockup combinations.

Narrow a deeply nested template record for an agent

placeit-pp-cli template 41935 --agent --select name,category_name,stage_link,large_thumb,device_tags

Template records carry 40+ fields and 9 tag arrays; --select keeps only what the agent needs.

Watch a client niche for new templates

placeit-pp-cli watch add "halloween instagram" && placeit-pp-cli watch run --agent

Saves a named search, then reports templates newly published since the last sync.

Usage

Run placeit-pp-cli --help for the full command reference and flag list.

Commands

account

Your Placeit account and subscription status (requires a logged-in session)

placeit-pp-cli account - Show the signed-in user's account type and subscription status

bookmarks

Templates you've saved/bookmarked on Placeit (requires a logged-in session)

placeit-pp-cli bookmarks - List the signed-in user's bookmarked templates

campaigns

Active Placeit marketing campaigns and promotions (no login required)

placeit-pp-cli campaigns - List active Placeit campaigns and promotions

Output Formats

# Human-readable table (default in terminal, JSON when piped)
placeit-pp-cli bookmarks --user-id 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

# JSON for scripting and agents
placeit-pp-cli bookmarks --user-id 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 --json

# Filter to specific fields
placeit-pp-cli bookmarks --user-id 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 --json --select id,name,status

# Dry run — show the request without sending
placeit-pp-cli bookmarks --user-id 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 --dry-run

# Agent mode — JSON + compact + no prompts in one flag
placeit-pp-cli bookmarks --user-id 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 --agent

Agent Usage

This CLI is designed for AI agent consumption:

Non-interactive - never prompts, every input is a flag
Pipeable - --json output to stdout, errors to stderr
Filterable - --select id,name returns only fields you need
Previewable - --dry-run shows the request without sending
Read-only by default - this CLI does not create, update, delete, publish, send, or mutate remote resources
Offline-friendly - sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available
Agent-safe by default - no colors or formatting unless --human-friendly is set

Exit codes: 0 success, 2 usage error, 3 not found, 4 auth error, 5 API error, 7 rate limited, 10 config error.

Health Check

placeit-pp-cli doctor

Verifies configuration, credentials, and connectivity to the API.

Configuration

Config file: ~/.config/placeit-pp-cli/config.toml

Static request headers can be configured under headers; per-command header overrides take precedence.

Troubleshooting

Authentication errors (exit code 4)

Run placeit-pp-cli doctor to check credentials Not found errors (exit code 3)
Check the resource ID is correct
Run the list command to see available items

API-specific

search returns nothing offline — search queries the live Placeit catalog by default and needs no sync; for offline use, run a sync first to build the local mirror.
account or bookmarks returns 403 / Cloudflare challenge — Re-import a fresh Chrome session via the auth login step in Quick Start; Placeit sessions expire.
gaps or rank show 0 results — gaps and rank read the local mirror; run a sync to populate it before using them.

HTTP Transport

This CLI uses Chrome-compatible HTTP transport for browser-facing endpoints. It does not require a resident browser process for normal API calls.

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