Media and Entertainment

Drudge Report

drudgereport-pp-cli

Drudge Report in your terminal, with the editorial signal (splash, red, slot, tenure) the live page broadcasts but...

Printed by @mvanhorn (Matt Van Horn)

Install

npx — recommended

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install drudgereport

Installs the CLI binary and the agent skill (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more). Add --cli-only or --skill-only for one half. Requires Node.

Hermes

hermes skills install mvanhorn/printing-press-library/cli-skills/pp-drudgereport --force

From the Hermes CLI. Inside a chat session use /skills install with the same path.

OpenClaw

Install the pp-drudgereport skill from https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/main/cli-skills/pp-drudgereport. The skill defines how its required CLI can be installed.

Paste this to your OpenClaw agent — the skill describes how to install its CLI.

Claude Desktop

This CLI ships an MCPB bundle. Download the latest release .mcpb and double-click it — Claude Desktop walks you through the install.

View source on GitHub →

Drudge Report in your terminal, with the editorial signal (splash, red, slot, tenure) the live page broadcasts but no other scraper preserves.

Read Drudge's lead, breaking-red items, and ranked headlines in one bounded JSON call. Keep a local SQLite snapshot history so you can answer 'what's changed since I checked,' 'how long has that been the splash,' and 'what was Drudge leading with on Tuesday' — none of which the live site supports.

Created by @mvanhorn (Matt Van Horn).

Quick Start

# the one command an agent should reach for first when asked 'what's on Drudge?'
drudgereport splash --json


# every red headline right now, ordered by slot
drudgereport breaking --json


# ranked headlines in agent-shaped form
drudgereport headlines --limit 10 --json --select title,slot,is_red,url


# snapshot the current page into local SQLite so tail/tenure/on-date have history to draw on
drudgereport sync


# what got promoted, demoted, or went red in the last 6 hours
drudgereport tail --since 6h --json


# longest-tenured splashes the CLI has observed
drudgereport tenure --history --json

Unique Features

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Editorial signal-aware reading

splash — Just the current center-slot splash headline with image, outbound URL, red flag, and how long it has been on splash.

When an agent is asked 'what's on Drudge right now?' this is the one-shot bounded answer; no HTML soup to re-parse.
```
drudgereport splash --json
```
breaking — Every headline currently set in red by Drudge's editor, ordered by slot importance.

Tells an agent the difference between 'on Drudge' and 'Drudge thinks this is breaking,' a high-signal filter at zero token cost.
```
drudgereport breaking --json
```
headlines — All current headlines ranked by composite editorial weight (slot + red + image), not by chronology.

Returns Drudge in priority order with bounded payloads agents can pipe.
```
drudgereport headlines --limit 10 --json --select title,slot,is_red,url
```

Local state that compounds

tail — Slot transitions and color changes between consecutive snapshots: promoted to splash, demoted from splash, went red, disappeared, appeared.

Lets an agent answer 'what changed on Drudge?' without re-fetching the page or diffing screenshots.
```
drudgereport tail --since 6h --json
```
tenure — How long the current splash has been the splash, plus the all-time longest-tenured splash leaderboard.

Distinguishes 'breaking right now' from 'Drudge wants this to stick,' a question agents and journalists both need.
```
drudgereport tenure --history --json
```
sources — Outbound-domain frequency leaderboard over a window with rising/falling delta vs the prior window, optionally crosstabbed by slot.

Surfaces editorial bent shifts week over week; high-leverage for media analysts and agents writing about narrative pickup.
```
drudgereport sources --window 168h --by-slot --json
```
on-date — Reconstruct Drudge at any past timestamp the CLI has observed: splash, red items, ranked headlines as of that moment.

Answers 'what was Drudge leading with when X happened?' — a question the live site cannot.
```
drudgereport on-date 2026-04-15T08:30 --json
```
bent — Ratio of red items by outbound domain over a window: which outlets Drudge tends to break vs which he tends to merely column.

Quantifies a previously gut-feel media-criticism observation; agents writing media-analysis copy can cite numbers.
```
drudgereport bent --window 168h --json
```
story — Every slot_event for one story_id ordered by timestamp: when it appeared, where it moved, when it went red, when it dropped, total tenure.

Lets an agent reconstruct one story's editorial life on Drudge, useful for retrospective newsletter analysis.
```
drudgereport story abc123 --json
```

Agent-native plumbing

digest — One-pager: splash count, longest-tenured splash, top 5 outbound domains, biggest red-surge stories over the week.

Replaces the 'what did Drudge feature this week' graf that journalists currently assemble by hand.
```
drudgereport digest --week --json
```

Usage

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

Commands

feed

Unofficial community RSS feed mirror of Drudge Report (feedpress.me). Used as a cross-check source for pubDate and pre-grouped Related stories.

drudgereport-pp-cli feed - Fetch the unofficial RSS feed mirror. Items embed position labels (Main headline / First column / Second column) in CDATA and use the real outbound URL as the GUID. Pre-parsed by the CLI; most users will not call this directly.

Output Formats

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

# JSON for scripting and agents
drudgereport-pp-cli feed --json

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

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

# Agent mode — JSON + compact + no prompts in one flag
drudgereport-pp-cli feed --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

drudgereport-pp-cli doctor

Verifies configuration and connectivity to the API.

Configuration

Config file: ~/.config/drudgereport-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

API-specific

splash and headlines return zero stories — drudgereport doctor — confirms drudgereport.com is reachable; if the page layout changes, the parser may need an update
tail returns nothing — run drudgereport sync at least twice with some time between, since tail diffs consecutive snapshots
tenure shows 0s for the current splash — sync history doesn't extend back far enough; tenure reports the earliest captured_at the local store has

Sources & Inspiration

This CLI was built by studying these projects and resources:

mattrasband/drudge_parser — Python
mattrasband/drudge.in — Python
ghayward/drudge_report_headline_scraper — Python
lukerosiak/drudge — Python
JonathanBrownCFA/scrape-it-like-you-mean-it — JavaScript
drudgereportfeed.com (community RSS) — RSS

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