---
title: "Artisan commands — QR for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Render SVG files or inspect a code’s version, level, mask and bit budget from the command line with qr:make."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/qr-for-laravel/commands
language: en
---

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# Artisan commands

qr:make renders any text as an SVG (with the XML declaration) to STDOUT or a file, or prints the encoding details:

```bash
php artisan qr:make "https://example.com" --size=240 --ecc=H --output=qr.svg
echo "piped text" | php artisan qr:make - --info
php artisan qr:make "hello" --min-version=2 --max-version=5 --mask=3 --margin=2 --fg=#111 --bg=transparent --output=qr.svg --force
```

| Argument / option | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| `data` | Text to encode; - reads STDIN. |
| `--ecc=` | Error correction level: L, M, Q or H. |
| `--min-version= / --max-version=` | Allowed version range (1–40); with only one given, the other keeps its configured bound (qr.versions.\*). |
| `--mask=` | Force a mask (0–7). |
| `--size= / --margin=` | Width/height in pixels and the quiet zone in modules. |
| `--fg= / --bg=` | Foreground and background colour. |
| `--output=` | Write the SVG to this path; without --force the file is created exclusively, so an existing file — even one that appears mid-run — is never overwritten. |
| `--force` | Overwrite the --output file. |
| `--info` | Print version, level (boosted?), mask, segments, bit budget, ECI and mask penalties instead of the SVG. |

Invalid input fails with the exception message and a non-zero exit code. Called from code through Artisan::call(), the numeric options (--min-version, --max-version, --mask, --size, --margin) accept PHP integers as well as strings; any other value fails as “must be an integer” instead of being ignored. php artisan about lists the package’s effective settings — see Configuration.

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