Make any website or Electron App your CLI.
Zero risk · Reuse Chrome login · AI-powered discovery · Browser + Desktop automation

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A CLI tool that turns any website or Electron app into a command-line interface — Bilibili, Zhihu, 小红书, Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, Antigravity, and many more — powered by browser session reuse and AI-native discovery.

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• Highlights
• Prerequisites
• Quick Start
• Built-in Commands
• Download Support
• Output Formats
• For AI Agents (Developer Guide)
• Remote Chrome (Server/Headless)
• Testing
• Troubleshooting
• Releasing New Versions
• License

• CLI All Electron — CLI-ify apps like Antigravity Ultra! Now AI can control itself natively using cc/openclaw!
• Account-safe — Reuses Chrome's logged-in state; your credentials never leave the browser.
• AI Agent ready — explore discovers APIs, synthesize generates adapters, cascade finds auth strategies.
• Self-healing setup — opencli setup auto-discovers tokens; opencli doctor diagnoses config across 10+ tools; --fix repairs them all.
• Dynamic Loader — Simply drop .ts or .yaml adapters into the clis/ folder for auto-registration.
• Dual-Engine Architecture — Supports both YAML declarative data pipelines and robust browser runtime TypeScript injections.

• Node.js: >= 20.0.0
• Chrome running and logged into the target site (e.g. bilibili.com, zhihu.com, xiaohongshu.com).

⚠️ Important: Browser commands reuse your Chrome login session. You must be logged into the target website in Chrome before running commands. If you get empty data or errors, check your login status first.

OpenCLI connects to your browser through a lightweight Browser Bridge Chrome Extension + micro-daemon (zero config, auto-start).

1. Install the opencli Browser Bridge extension in Chrome:
   • Open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode (top-right toggle)
   • Click Load unpacked, select the extension/ folder from this repo
2. That's it! The daemon auto-starts when you run any browser command. No tokens, no manual configuration.

Tip: Use opencli doctor for ongoing diagnosis:

opencli doctor # Check extension + daemon connectivity opencli doctor --live # Also test live browser commands

npm install -g @jackwener/opencli

Then use directly:

opencli list # See all commands opencli list -f yaml # List commands as YAML opencli hackernews top --limit 5 # Public API, no browser opencli bilibili hot --limit 5 # Browser command opencli zhihu hot -f json # JSON output opencli zhihu hot -f yaml # YAML output

git clone git@github.com:jackwener/opencli.git cd opencli npm install npm run build npm link # Link binary globally opencli list # Now you can use it anywhere!

npm install -g @jackwener/opencli@latest

Run opencli list for the live registry.

OpenCLI supports downloading images, videos, and articles from supported platforms.

For video downloads from streaming platforms, you need to install yt-dlp:

# Install yt-dlp pip install yt-dlp # or brew install yt-dlp

# Download images/videos from Xiaohongshu note opencli xiaohongshu download --note-id abc123 --output ./xhs # Download Bilibili video (requires yt-dlp) opencli bilibili download --bvid BV1xxx --output ./bilibili opencli bilibili download --bvid BV1xxx --quality 1080p # Specify quality # Download Twitter media from user opencli twitter download --username elonmusk --limit 20 --output ./twitter # Download single tweet media opencli twitter download --tweet-url "https://x.com/user/status/123" --output ./twitter # Export Zhihu article to Markdown opencli zhihu download --url "https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/xxx" --output ./zhihu # Export with local images opencli zhihu download --url "https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/xxx" --download-images

The download step can be used in YAML pipelines:

pipeline: - fetch: https://api.example.com/media - download: url: ${{ item.imageUrl }} dir: ./downloads filename: ${{ item.title | sanitize }}.jpg concurrency: 5 skip_existing: true

All built-in commands support --format / -f with table, json, yaml, md, and csv. The list command supports the same format options, and keeps --json for backward compatibility.

opencli list -f yaml # Command registry as YAML opencli bilibili hot -f table # Default: rich terminal table opencli bilibili hot -f json # JSON (pipe to jq or LLMs) opencli bilibili hot -f yaml # YAML (human-readable structured output) opencli bilibili hot -f md # Markdown opencli bilibili hot -f csv # CSV opencli bilibili hot -v # Verbose: show pipeline debug steps

If you are an AI assistant tasked with creating a new command adapter for opencli, please follow the AI Agent workflow below:

Quick mode: To generate a single command for a specific page URL, see CLI-ONESHOT.md — just a URL + one-line goal, 4 steps done.

Full mode: Before writing any adapter code, read CLI-EXPLORER.md. It contains the complete browser exploration workflow, the 5-tier authentication strategy decision tree, and debugging guide.

# 1. Deep Explore — discover APIs, infer capabilities, detect framework opencli explore https://example.com --site mysite # 2. Synthesize — generate YAML adapters from explore artifacts opencli synthesize mysite # 3. Generate — one-shot: explore → synthesize → register opencli generate https://example.com --goal "hot" # 4. Strategy Cascade — auto-probe: PUBLIC → COOKIE → HEADER opencli cascade https://api.example.com/data

Explore outputs to .opencli/explore/<site>/ (manifest.json, endpoints.json, capabilities.json, auth.json).

See TESTING.md for the full testing guide, including:

• Current test coverage (unit + E2E tests across browser and desktop adapters)
• How to run tests locally
• How to add tests when creating new adapters
• CI/CD pipeline with sharding
• Headless browser mode (OPENCLI_HEADLESS=1)

# Quick start npm run build npx vitest run # All tests npx vitest run src/ # Unit tests only npx vitest run tests/e2e/ # E2E tests

• "Extension not connected"
  • Ensure the opencli Browser Bridge extension is installed and enabled in chrome://extensions.
• Empty data returns or 'Unauthorized' error
  • Your login session in Chrome might have expired. Open a normal Chrome tab, navigate to the target site, and log in or refresh the page.
• Node API errors
  • Make sure you are using Node.js >= 20. Some dependencies require modern Node APIs.
• Daemon issues
  • Check daemon status: curl localhost:19825/status
  • View extension logs: curl localhost:19825/logs

npm version patch # 0.1.0 → 0.1.1 npm version minor # 0.1.0 → 0.2.0 git push --follow-tags

The CI will automatically build, create a GitHub release, and publish to npm.

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