Tools

Command-line audio and video downloader supporting thousands of sites: pick formats and quality, grab subtitles and metadata, and merge or transcode with FFmpeg. The actively maintained fork of youtube-dl.

Write videos in HTML, CSS and frame-seekable animations, preview them from the CLI and render deterministic MP4s. Comes with agent skills for product launch videos, captions and talking-head re-edits. Maintained by HeyGen; needs Node.js 22+ and FFmpeg.

One CLI for Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets and other Google Workspace APIs, with commands generated from the Discovery service, JSON output and 100+ Agent Skills. From the googleworkspace org but not officially supported; needs OAuth via a Google Cloud project.

Turns websites and Electron desktop apps into deterministic CLIs, with built-in adapters for Reddit, Hacker News, Bilibili, Zhihu, Xiaohongshu and more, and lets agents operate any page through your signed-in Chrome. Needs its companion browser extension.

Removes image backgrounds with one command: single images, whole folders or watched directories, mask-only output and switchable models like U2Net and SAM. Can also run as an HTTP server or process video frames with FFmpeg. Default models run locally.

Command-line tool for bulk-downloading galleries and posts from many image hosts and social platforms, with flexible file naming and config, and yt-dlp integration for video. Main development has moved to Codeberg; the GitHub repo stays in sync.

All-in-one video translation and dubbing: chains speech recognition, subtitle translation, multi-speaker AI voiceover and audio-video muxing, with local or online models like Faster-Whisper, DeepSeek and Edge-TTS. cli.py supports headless batch runs. Needs FFmpeg.

Official Lark (Feishu) CLI with 200+ commands for messages, docs, Base, Sheets, calendar, mail, approvals, OKRs, meetings and Minutes, plus 20+ bundled lark-* agent skills and structured output. Create a Lark app and sign in first.

Pipes live streams from Twitch, YouTube and many other platforms to a local player, or saves them to video files with --output or --record, for keeping and re-editing replays of your own or partners' streams. Viewing needs a player like VLC. Only record content you have rights to.

Google Workspace CLI for scripts and agents covering Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Contacts and Tasks, with JSON output, read-only mode and command allowlists; can also run as a read-only-by-default MCP server. Bring your own Google OAuth client.

Removes backgrounds from images and videos with one AI command: batch whole folders, use a portrait model, refine edges or swap in a solid color, and output transparent MOV or composite video onto a new background. Runs locally; install PyTorch and ffmpeg first. Models download on first run.

Lossy PNG compression CLI: converts images to 8-bit PNGs that keep transparency, usually 60-80% smaller, with batch processing and a quality range setting. Handy for slimming down web assets, slides and article images. Install via Homebrew on macOS; no account.

High-quality GIF encoder built on pngquant: turns video frames or PNG sequences into animations, using cross-frame palettes and temporal dithering for thousands of colors per frame. Can take video piped straight from ffmpeg.

Automatically cuts silent or static parts from video and audio based on loudness or motion, with adjustable margins and speed changes, and exports project files for Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and other editors. The repo ships an agent skill.

WordPress's official CLI: install and update plugins and themes, manage posts and users, import and export content, run database search-replace and configure multisite from the terminal, without opening wp-admin. Requires PHP 7.2.24 or later.

Open-source, agent-friendly BI: define metrics and dashboards in YAML and SQL, and rill init generates project instructions and MCP config for Claude Code so agents can build business dashboards and answer questions in natural language. Local use is free; publishing to Rill Cloud needs an account.

WhatsApp CLI: pair as a linked device, sync messages to local SQLite, search offline, send text and files, and manage groups, with --json output for agents. Built on the unofficial WhatsApp Web protocol.

MiniMax's official CLI, built for agents: chat with MiniMax models from the terminal and generate images, video and speech, plus speech transcription, image understanding and web search. Works with the international platform. Requires a MiniMax Token Plan subscription.

Unofficial Gorgias CLI built with Printing Press for e-commerce support: lets AI list, reply to and update tickets, look up customers, find stale or incomplete tickets, and sync data locally for full-text search and SQL. Includes a skill and MCP server. Needs a Gorgias account and API key.

Unofficial Intercom CLI built with Printing Press, covering the full REST API: sync conversations and contacts for offline search, bulk-tag conversations about one incident, see customer overviews and SLA reports, and pull or push help articles. US, EU and AU regions; needs an access token.

Community CLI for Feishu (Lark) focused on two-way conversion between Markdown and Feishu docs; also works with wikis, sheets, Bitable, messages, calendar, tasks and meeting notes, and ships 9 agent skills. Setup creates an app via QR scan; search and mail need extra user authorization.

X's (formerly Twitter) official API command-line tool. Once authorized, agents can post for you, upload images and video, and query post and account data; it can also run as an MCP server for Claude. Needs an X developer account and app; the X API is pay-per-use, so buy credits first.

Creates and edits local CapCut (JianYing) drafts from the terminal: rough cuts on silence, styled subtitles and multilingual versions, still editable track by track in CapCut. Needs Node 18+ and desktop CapCut; subtitles need Whisper, translation an Anthropic key. No encrypted drafts. Unofficial.

SEO CLI and MCP server for agents: crawls your site for technical issues, uses Search Console data to rank fixes, and compares before and after. Needs Node.js 22+ and Google sign-in; keyword and competitor research needs paid data (DataForSEO, Semrush or Ahrefs).