# gautamkrishnar/socli

Stack overflow command line client. Search and browse stack overflow without leaving the terminal :computer:

Repository: https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/socli
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/socli
Homepage: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/socli
Language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: python, stackoverflow, commandline, commandline-interface, terminal-app, pypi, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-03-30T19:27:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 56/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 74, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3725, "days_push": 156, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1111, forks 214 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:37.635297+00:00)

## What it is
SoCLI is a Python command-line client for Stack Overflow that lets developers search and browse questions and answers without leaving the terminal. It supports quick, interactive, and manual search modes with shell autocompletion.

## Use cases
- search stack overflow from the terminal
- browse stack overflow answers without a browser
- quickly look up programming error messages
- interactively pick from a list of related questions
- open a specific stack overflow question by number

## When to choose
- you live in the terminal and want fast answers to coding questions
- you want a lightweight pip-installable stack overflow client
- you work on servers or environments without a browser

## When to avoid
- you need full stack overflow features like posting or voting
- you prefer a GUI or browser-based experience
- you need offline access to answers

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, cli, web-scraping
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: windows, python, cli
- tags: stack-overflow, terminal-app, interactive-search, pypi, command-line, search, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- gautamkrishnar/socli (main) score 56

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:37.635297+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:43:23.465985+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/socli (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:37.635297+00:00, sha 61d8057f1882)
  - homepage: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/socli (fetched 2026-08-29T12:47:00.741394+00:00, sha c2d64532c33d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.