Marginal Revolution CLI

Read and filter Marginal Revolution from the command line through its public RSS feed.

This CLI was regenerated with CLI Printing Press 4.2.1. It keeps the generated v4.2 agent/MCP scaffolding and adds RSS-native helper commands for posts, authors, categories, and outbound links.

Created by @hinuri (Nuri Chang).

Quick Start

1. Install

See Install above.

2. Verify Setup

marginalrevolution-pp-cli doctor

This checks your configuration.

3. Try Your First Command

marginalrevolution-pp-cli latest --limit 5

Usage

Run marginalrevolution-pp-cli --help for the full command reference and flag list.

Commands

feed

Manage feed

• marginalrevolution-pp-cli feed get - Returns the current public RSS feed. The feed is XML/RSS and does not require authentication.

RSS-native helpers

• marginalrevolution-pp-cli latest - list recent posts with dates, authors, categories, comment counts, and canonical URLs
• marginalrevolution-pp-cli search <query> - search current-feed title, excerpt, body text, author, and category text
• marginalrevolution-pp-cli read <url|guid|title> - read the body text for a post currently present in the feed
• marginalrevolution-pp-cli links - extract outbound cited links from recent posts
• marginalrevolution-pp-cli categories - show current-feed category counts
• marginalrevolution-pp-cli authors - show current-feed author counts

Scope

The public RSS feed is available to command-line clients. Marginal Revolution's WordPress JSON API and normal site-search URL returned Cloudflare browser challenges during implementation, so this CLI intentionally keeps search scoped to posts currently present in the feed.

Output Formats

# Human-readable table (default in terminal, JSON when piped)
marginalrevolution-pp-cli latest

# JSON for scripting and agents
marginalrevolution-pp-cli latest --json

# Filter to specific fields
marginalrevolution-pp-cli feed --json --select id,name,status

# Dry run — show the request without sending
marginalrevolution-pp-cli feed --dry-run

# Agent mode — JSON + compact + no prompts in one flag
marginalrevolution-pp-cli search ai --agent

Agent Usage

This CLI is designed for AI agent consumption:

• Non-interactive - never prompts, every input is a flag
• Pipeable - --json output to stdout, errors to stderr
• Filterable - --select id,name returns only fields you need
• Previewable - --dry-run shows the request without sending
• Read-only by default - this CLI does not create, update, delete, publish, send, or mutate remote resources
• Offline-friendly - sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available
• Agent-safe by default - no colors or formatting unless --human-friendly is set

Exit codes: 0 success, 2 usage error, 3 not found, 5 API error, 7 rate limited, 10 config error.

Health Check

marginalrevolution-pp-cli doctor

Verifies configuration and connectivity to the API.

Configuration

Config file: ~/.config/marginal-revolution-pp-cli/config.toml

Static request headers can be configured under headers; per-command header overrides take precedence.

Troubleshooting

Not found errors (exit code 3)

• Check the resource ID is correct
• Run the list command to see available items

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