A command line for zhihu.

zhihu is a single pure-Go binary. It reads public zhihu data over plain HTTPS, shapes it into clean records, and prints output that pipes into the rest of your tools. No API key, nothing to run alongside it.

The same package is also a resource-URI driver, so a host program like ant can address zhihu as zhihu:// URIs.

go install github.com/tamnd/zhihu-cli/cmd/zhihu@latest

Or grab a prebuilt binary from the releases, or run the container image:

docker run --rm ghcr.io/tamnd/zhihu:latest --help

zhihu page <path>                      # fetch one page as a record
zhihu page <path> -o json              # as JSON, ready for jq
zhihu page <path> --template '{{.Body}}'  # just the readable body text
zhihu links <path>                     # the pages it links to, one per line
zhihu --help                           # the whole command tree

Every command shares one output contract: -o table|json|jsonl|csv|tsv|url|raw, --fields to pick columns, --template for a custom line, and -n to limit. The default adapts to where output goes (a table on a terminal, JSONL in a pipe), so the same command reads well by hand and parses cleanly downstream.

This is a fresh scaffold. It ships one example resource type, page, wired end to end. Model the real zhihu records in zhihu/ and declare their operations in zhihu/domain.go; each one becomes a command, an HTTP route, and an MCP tool at once.

The same operations are available over HTTP and as an MCP tool set for agents, with no extra code:

zhihu serve --addr :7777    # GET /v1/page/<path>  returns NDJSON
zhihu mcp                   # speak MCP over stdio

zhihu registers a zhihu domain the way a program registers a database driver with database/sql. A host enables it with one blank import:

import _ "github.com/tamnd/zhihu-cli/zhihu"

Then ant (or any program that links the package) dereferences zhihu:// URIs without knowing anything about zhihu:

ant get zhihu://page/<path>   # fetch the record
ant cat zhihu://page/<path>   # just the body text
ant ls  zhihu://page/<path>   # the pages it links to, each addressable
ant url zhihu://page/<path>   # the live https URL

cmd/zhihu/   thin main: hands cli.NewApp to kit.Run
cli/                 assembles the kit App from the zhihu domain
zhihu/                the library: HTTP client, data models, and domain.go (the driver)
docs/                tago documentation site

make build      # ./bin/zhihu
make test       # go test ./...
make vet        # go vet ./...

Push a version tag and GitHub Actions runs GoReleaser, which builds the archives, Linux packages, the multi-arch GHCR image, checksums, SBOMs, and a cosign signature:

git tag v0.1.0
git push --tags

The Homebrew and Scoop steps self-disable until their tokens exist, so the first release works with no extra secrets.

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.