OpenCLI v1.8.0 is finally out. Stayed up until 4 AM, the journey from 1.7 to 1.8 is now complete. Looking back, I’ve done way too much during this period!

Browser Agent Runtime

The browser capabilities have been fully fleshed out, done in one go. Essentially, it shifts “agent controlling the browser” from the blind-guessing approach of selector-string concatenation to an agent-native path of “accessibility tree + semantic targeting + CDP native input.” CDP input + AX snapshot + semantic targeting (--role / --name / --label / --testid) + hover / focus / dblclick / check / upload / drag / wait download / annotated screenshot. opencli browser click 5 now points directly with a ref, no longer relying on selector guessing. Custom dropdowns like Radix, shadcn, Material UI that previously couldn’t be clicked — they all work now.

New Sites / New Scenarios

• weread-official — Access to WeRead Official Agent Gateway, pure HTTP + Bearer key, coexists with the original cookie-based weread
• 12306 — Full reading: train number / price / my orders / frequent passengers
• xianyu — Xianyu inbox / messages / reply, conversations are now reachable
• suno — Music generation
• linkedin — Sales Navigator + people-search + internal messages / safe-send / thread-snapshot fully integrated
• linkedin-learning / rednote / booking / ctrip hotels + flights / DuckDuckGo / Brave / Yahoo search

Twitter Continued Polishing

• list-create / device-follow / quoted_tweet / card binding_values / bio / UserMedia cursor pagination all completed
• Write operations symmetric: unlike / retweet / unretweet / quote bookmark / bookmark-folder / list-tweets now all carry media

Reddit / Zhihu Deeper Reading

• reddit: subscribed / whoami / home / subreddit-info / --expand-more to expand comment threads / listing exposes post_hint+url+preview+gallery
• zhihu: answer-detail / answer-comments / answer pagination (very important)

Stability & Security

• Download path traversal fix: remote fields (like video titles) can no longer use ../ to escape the output directory
• Page.goto stale-identity self-healing: CDP -32000 automatically retries
• undici 8.x broke Node 20 entirely, rolled back to 6.x to salvage all Node 20 users
• YouTube subtitle cross-video pollution fixed (SPA now doesn’t pick up the previous video’s subtitles before switching)
• ChatGPT web image generation restored (now recognizes CSS background + canvas, not just <img>)
• typed-error cleanup: Douyin / Jike / WeRead / Apple Podcasts / Reddit / Gitee / lesswrong / xhs / YouTube — all silent-sentinel and silent-empty replaced with EmptyResultError / AuthRequiredError. Agents no longer have to guess if an empty array means truly empty or a site redesign

Trace & Observation

• Adapter failures now come with a trace artifact, summary.md is the diagnostic entry point
• browser console / browser network --failed / --follow — agents can finally see what’s happening inside the browser

README Cut Down by 20%

• Chinese: 455 → 371, English: 410 → 326
• Built-in Commands shrank to 11 commonly used sites, CLI Hub cut to name enumeration. No longer overwhelming to look at.

Goal unchanged: the read & action infrastructure for AI agents.

jackwener/OpenCLI

Source: https://github.com/jackwener/OpenCLI

OpenCLI

Convert any website into a CLI & run Browser Use on your logged-in Chrome. Turn websites, browser sessions, Electron apps, and local tools into deterministic interfaces for humans and AI agents. Or run Browser Use against any page — navigate, fill forms, click, extract, automate.

中文文档

npm (https://www.npmjs.com/package/@jackwener/opencli) Node.js Version (https://nodejs.org) License

OpenCLI gives you one surface for three different kinds of automation:

• Use built-in adapters for sites like Bilibili, Zhihu, Xiaohongshu, Reddit, HackerNews, Twitter/X, and many more.
• Let AI Agents operate any website — install the opencli-browser skill in your AI agent (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), and it can navigate, click, type/fill, extract, and inspect any page through your logged-in browser via opencli browser primitives.
• Write new adapters end-to-end with opencli browser + the opencli-adapter-author skill, which guides from first recon through field decoding, code, and opencli browser verify.

It also works as a CLI hub for local tools such as gh, docker, longbridge, tg, discord, wx, ntn (Notion), and other binaries you register yourself, plus desktop app adapters for Electron apps like Cursor, Codex, Antigravity, and ChatGPT.

Quick Start

1. Install OpenCLI

OpenCLI requires Node.js >= 21.

node --version
npm install -g @jackwener/opencli

2. Install the Browser Bridge Extension

OpenCLI connects to Chrome/Chromium through a lightweight Browser Bridge extension plus a small local daemon. The daemon auto-starts when needed.

Option A — Chrome Web Store (recommended): Install OpenCLI from the Chrome Web Store (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/opencli/ildkmabpimmkaediidaifkhjpohdnifk).

Option B — Manual install:

1. Download the latest opencli-extension-v{version}.zip from the GitHub Releases page (https://github.com/jackwener/opencli/releases).
2. Unzip it, open chrome://extensions, and enable Developer mode.
3. Click Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.

3. Verify the setup

opencli doctor

4. Optional: name your Chrome profile

Each Chrome profile runs its own OpenCLI extension instance. If you use multiple Chrome profiles, list the connected profiles and assign local aliases:

opencli profile list
opencli profile rename work
opencli profile use work
opencli --profile work browser state

With only one connected profile, OpenCLI uses it automatically. With multiple connected profiles and no default, OpenCLI asks you to choose instead of guessing.

5. Run your first commands

opencli list
opencli hackernews top --limit 5
opencli bilibili hot --limit 5

For Humans

Use OpenCLI directly when you want a reliable command instead of a live browser session:

• opencli list shows every registered command.
• opencli <command> runs a built-in or generated adapter.
• opencli external register mycli exposes a local CLI through the same discovery surface.
• opencli doctor helps diagnose browser connectivity.

Extending OpenCLI

If you want to add your own commands, start with the Extending OpenCLI guide. README keeps this short; the guide covers the directory layout, source-control model, and install commands.

For AI Agents

OpenCLI’s browser commands are designed to be used by AI Agents — not run manually. Install skills into your AI agent (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), and the agent operates websites on your behalf using your logged-in Chrome session.

Install skills (also refreshes existing installs)

npx skills add jackwener/opencli

Or install only what you need:

npx skills add jackwener/opencli --skill opencli-adapter-author
npx skills add jackwener/opencli --skill opencli-autofix
npx skills add jackwener/opencli --skill opencli-browser
npx skills add jackwener/opencli --skill opencli-usage

Which skill to use

How it works

Once opencli-browser is installed, your AI agent can:

1. Navigate to any URL using your logged-in browser
2. Read page content via structured DOM snapshots (not screenshots)
3. Interact — click buttons, fill forms, select options, press keys
4. Extract data from the page or intercept network API responses
5. Wait for elements, text, or page transitions

The agent handles all the opencli browser commands internally — you just describe what you want done in natural language.

Skill references:

• skills/opencli-browser/SKILL.md — drive Chrome ad-hoc (navigate, fill forms, click, extract)
• skills/opencli-adapter-author/SKILL.md — write a new adapter end-to-end
• skills/opencli-autofix/SKILL.md — repair broken adapters
• skills/opencli-usage/SKILL.md — command and site reference

Available browser commands include open, state, click, type, fill, select, keys, wait, get, find, extract, frames, screenshot, scroll, back, eval, network, tab list, tab new, tab select, tab close, init, verify, and close.

opencli browser commands require a <profile> positional immediately after browser. opencli browser work open <url> and opencli browser work tab new [url] both return a target ID. Use opencli browser work tab list to inspect target IDs, then pass --tab <id> to route a command to a specific tab. tab new creates a new tab without changing the default browser target; only tab select <id> promotes that tab to the default target for later untargeted commands in the same session.

Writing a new adapter

When the site you need is not yet covered, use the opencli-adapter-author skill end-to-end:

1. Recon the site and pick a pattern (SPA / SSR / JSONP / Token / Streaming).
2. Discover the right endpoint — network inspection, initial state, bundle search, token trace, or interceptor fallback.
3. Pick auth — PUBLIC / COOKIE / INTERCEPT / UI / LOCAL.
4. Decode response fields and design output columns.
5. opencli browser recon analyze <url> → opencli browser recon init <site>/ → write adapter → opencli browser recon verify <site>/.
6. Site knowledge persists to ~/.opencli/sites/<site>/ so the next adapter for the same site starts from context.

Prerequisites

• Node.js: >= 21.0.0 (required for the standard npm install path)
• Bun: >= 1.0 (optional alternative runtime)
• Chrome or Chromium running and logged into the target site for browser-backed commands

Important: Browser-backed commands reuse your Chrome/Chromium login session. If you get empty data or permission-like failures, first confirm the site is already open and authenticated in Chrome/Chromium.

Configuration

opencli browser * requires an explicit <profile> positional, uses a foreground browser window by default, and keeps that session’s tab lease until opencli browser close or idle cleanup. Browser-backed adapters use a background adapter window and release one-shot tab leases by default. Interactive adapters can declare siteSession: 'persistent' to keep a stable site tab for continuity; pass --site-session ephemeral for a one-shot tab.

Built-in Commands

Curated highlights — → see all 100+ supported sites & commands (douyin / weibo / spotify / 1688 / quark / nowcoder / google-scholar / hupu / xianyu / weread / weread-official / xiaoyuzhou / and more).

CLI Hub

Unified passthrough for your existing command-line tools. Run opencli <command> ... for any of: gh · docker · vercel · wrangler · obsidian · longbridge · lark-cli · ntn(notion) · dws(DingTalk Workspace) · wecom-cli(企业微信) · tg(tg-cli) · discord(discord-cli) · wx(wx-cli)

Register your own with opencli external register <binary>; list everything with opencli external list.

Desktop app adapters (Electron, via CDP): Cursor / Codex / Antigravity / ChatGPT App / ChatWise / Discord / Doubao — see docs/adapters/desktop/.

Download Support

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

For video downloads, install yt-dlp first: brew install yt-dlp

opencli xiaohongshu download "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/search_result/?xsec_token=..." --output ./xhs
opencli xiaohongshu download "https://xhslink.com/..." --output ./xhs
opencli rednote download "https://www.rednote.com/search_result/?xsec_token=..." --output ./rednote
opencli bilibili download BV1xxx --output ./bilibili
opencli twitter download elonmusk --limit 20 --output ./twitter
opencli 1688 download 841141931191 --output ./1688-downloads
opencli xiaoyuzhou download 69b3b675772ac2295bfc01d0 --output ./xiaoyuzhou
opencli xiaoyuzhou transcript 69dd0c98e2c8be31551f6a33 --output ./xiaoyuzhou-transcripts

opencli xiaoyuzhou download and transcript require local Xiaoyuzhou credentials in ~/.opencli/xiaoyuzhou.json.

Output Formats

All built-in commands support --format / -f with table (default), json, yaml, md, and csv.

opencli bilibili hot -f json
opencli hackernews top --format yaml
opencli reddit frontpage -f csv

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT