glqr

gleam add glqr

Display QR Code

import glqr as qr

pub fn main() -> Nil {
  let assert Ok(code) =
    qr.new("HELLO WORLD")
    |> qr.generate()

  qr.print(code)
}

If you need the string itself use qr.to_printable(), but print it with io.println — echo escapes the newlines and mangles the output.

Config Options

• Error Correction Level

  • L (Low, 7% of damage to image be restored)
  • M (Medium, 15% of damage to image be restored)
  • Q (Quartile, 25% of damage to image be restored)
  • H (High, 30% of damage to image be restored)

• Minimum Version (1-40, default is 1)

  • Version 1: 21x21 matrix
  • Version 40: 177x177 matrix

import glqr as qr

pub fn main() -> Nil {
  let assert Ok(code) =
    qr.new("HELLO WORLD")
    |> qr.error_correction(qr.L)
    |> qr.min_version(10)
    |> qr.generate()

  qr.print(code)
}

Save SVG

import glqr as qr
import simplifile

pub fn main() -> Nil {
  let assert Ok(code) =
    qr.new("HELLO WORLD")
    |> qr.generate()

  let svg =
    code
    |> qr.to_svg()

  let assert Ok(_) = simplifile.write("output.svg", svg)
  Nil
}

Simple Lustre Example

import gleam/int
import glqr
import lustre
import lustre/attribute
import lustre/element

fn render_qr(value: String, size: Int) {
  let assert Ok(matrix) =
    glqr.new(value)
    |> glqr.generate()

  let svg = glqr.to_svg(matrix)

  lustre.element(element.unsafe_raw_html(
    "",
    "div",
    [attribute.style("max-width", int.to_string(size) <> "px")],
    svg,
  ))
}

pub fn main() {
  let app = render_qr("https://github.com/lustre-labs/lustre", 150)
  let assert Ok(_) = lustre.start(app, "#app", Nil)

  Nil
}

Standard Content Formats

Builders for common QR code payload formats — WiFi networks, contact cards (vCard), calendar events, email, SMS, phone numbers, and geo locations. Plain URLs need no helper, pass them directly to glqr.new.

import glqr as qr

pub fn main() -> Nil {
  // Join a WiFi network
  let wifi =
    qr.wifi(
      ssid: "MyNetwork",
      authentication: qr.Wpa("hunter2"),
      hidden: False,
    )

  // Share contact info
  let card =
    qr.v_card(name: "Lucy Gleam")
    |> qr.v_card_phone("+461234567")
    |> qr.v_card_email("lucy@gleam.run")
    |> qr.v_card_website("https://gleam.run")
    |> qr.v_card_to_string

  // Other formats
  let _event =
    qr.calendar_event(
      summary: "Gleam meetup",
      starts_at: "20260719T093000Z",
      ends_at: "20260719T103000Z",
    )
    |> qr.calendar_event_to_string
  let _email = qr.email("hello@example.com")
  let _sms = qr.sms(number: "+461234567", message: "Hello!")
  let _phone = qr.phone("+461234567")
  let _geo = qr.geo(latitude: 59.3293, longitude: 18.0686)

  let assert Ok(code) = qr.new(wifi) |> qr.generate()
  qr.print(code)

  let assert Ok(code) = qr.new(card) |> qr.generate()
  qr.print(code)
}

Further documentation can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/glqr.

Development

gleam run   # Run the project
gleam test  # Run the tests

Benchmark

A small benchmark of glqr.generate lives in dev/bench.gleam, powered by gleamy_bench. It works on both targets:

gleam run -m bench                      # Erlang target
gleam run -m bench --target javascript

Sample output on an Apple M4 machine (Erlang target). IPS is QR codes generated per second, Min/P99 are milliseconds per QR code:

Input               Function                       IPS           Min           P99
v1 (11 chars)       glqr.generate            3669.1609        0.2379        0.3329
v10 (500 chars)     glqr.generate             231.1611        3.7884        4.8095
v40 (4200 chars)    glqr.generate              37.5127       25.5247       27.5804

TODO

• Import as local module
• Data Analysis
  • Numeric
  • Alphanumeric
  • Byte
  • Kanji
• Data Encoding
  • Mode Indicator
  • Character Count Indicator
  • Data Bits
  • Terminator
  • Pad Bits
• Error correction
• QR Code Structure
• Draw Matrix
• Add Snapshot Testing
• Add more Snapshot testing
• Add Lustre example
• Add opaque Qr type with to_bits BitArray view
• Add to_bits feature
• Add convenience functions
  • Contact Info (vCard)
  • WiFi Network
  • Url (no helper needed, pass URLs directly to glqr.new)
  • Email
  • Calendar Event
  • SMS
  • Phone Number
  • GeoLocation

References

Thonky’s QR Code Tutorial

IODevs elixir qr code library

SiliconJungles elixir qr code library

Nayuki QR Code Step by Step

Gears BitArray Blog Post