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CLUSTER COMMAND-LINE-TERMINAL-2 · 14 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2016-01-24

CLI search and browsing tools

This cluster comprises command-line tools for searching and browsing diverse content — man pages, Q&A sites, API docs, web results, books, and more — directly from the terminal. The dated entries are sparse and unevenly distributed between 2016 and 2026, with gaps of several years, showing no consistent growth pattern. The traction leaders — is-fast, spoo-cli, and s — each have zero stars, indicating minimal user engagement.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2016: 1FEB 2016: 1MAR 2020: 1JUL 2020: 2JUN 2022: 1DEC 2024: 1MAY 2025: 1AUG 2025: 1JUL 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 2OCT 2026: 1
JAN 2016OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 4 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled

Operator · 13 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 14 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01wallapop-cli-bin0★28 daysliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that provides terminal access to Wallapop's second-hand marketplace for browsing listings.
  2. 02wikid-bin0★6 daysliveopen sourceTerminal client that lets users search, browse, and read Wikipedia articles from a command-line interface.
  3. 03is-fast0★8 daysliveopen sourceTerminal-based tool for quick internet searches, offering an efficient search interface.
  4. 04s0★2 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that searches the web across multiple search engines and providers.
  5. 05wtfis-cli0★2 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that searches for and surfaces relevant software projects quickly from the terminal.
  6. 06dasht0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that displays and searches API documentation in the terminal.
  7. 07omaro0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal UI for browsing Lobste.rs posts and comments from the command line.
  8. 08linker-cli0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool for managing links from the terminal.
  9. 09bookbrowse0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal app that lets users search for books by title, author, or keyword from the command line.
  10. 10so0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal interface for browsing and searching Stack Overflow questions from the command line.
  11. 11socli0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand line client that lets users search and browse Stack Overflow answers without leaving the terminal.
  12. 12search0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool for searching the web and displaying results in the terminal.
  13. 13mantra0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool to view online manual pages directly from the terminal.
  14. 14Larry Q&As Search0★unknownliveSearch tool for questions and answers (Q&As).

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.