shfonts

Command line tool to download fonts from third-party font hosting sites for self-hosting.

Installation

Coming soon...

Usage

For basic usage, pass in the URL of the CSS font declaration of the hosting site:

shfonts "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300"

Assuming that the URL passed is a CSS file with @font-face declarations, the previous command will download all the font files specified inside it. It will also write a CSS file with contents copied from that CSS file replacing the font URLs declared in @font-face > src url() with the file names of the font files. For example, if the content of the CSS file above is the following:

/* latin */
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Roboto';
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 300;
  src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v30/KFOjCnqEu92Fr1Mu51TjASc6CsQ.woff2) format('woff2');
  unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+2000-206F, U+2074, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD;
}

...it will rewrite it to something like the following:

/* latin */
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Roboto';
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 300;
  src: url(KFOjCnqEu92Fr1Mu51TjASc6CsQ.woff2) format('woff2');
  unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+2000-206F, U+2074, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD;
}

Setting a Download Directory

If you want to save the font files and the CSS file to a different directory, use --dir or -d option:

shfonts -d "/download/path" "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300"

Customizing the Font URL Path

If you need to customize the font URL inside the url() declaration, use the --font-url-prefix or -p option:

shfonts -p "/assets/fonts/" "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300"

For the previous example CSS file, it will rewrite it like in the following:

/* latin */
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Roboto';
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 300;
  src: url(/assets/fonts/KFOjCnqEu92Fr1Mu51TjASc6CsQ.woff2) format('woff2');
  unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+2000-206F, U+2074, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD;
}