@releasebot-io/cli

Command-line access to the Releasebot catalog — search software release notes, changelogs, and product announcements from your terminal.

Powered by Releasebot, which automatically discovers and aggregates release notes from thousands of software vendors and products.

npm install -g @releasebot-io/cli
# or run without installing:
npx @releasebot-io/cli search openai

Getting an API key

1. Sign up for a free account at https://releasebot.io/sign-up
2. Generate a key at https://releasebot.io/notifications — keys look like rb_ followed by 32 characters.

Free accounts start with 250 API credits. search is free; releases, search-releases, all, and feed charge 1 credit per release returned (min 1 per request). See plans at https://releasebot.io/billing.

Authenticate

releasebot auth set rb_your_api_key   # saved to ~/.releasebot/credentials.json (mode 0600)
releasebot auth status

You can also set RELEASEBOT_API_KEY in your environment instead of saving a file. The env var takes precedence.

Commands

# Search for vendors or products
releasebot search "github"

# Keyword search across all release notes (any vendor/product)
releasebot search-releases "dark mode"
releasebot grep "CVE-2024" --limit 50   # 'grep' is an alias

# Recent releases for a vendor
releasebot releases openai

# Recent releases for a specific product (vendor-slug/product-slug)
releasebot releases openai/chatgpt --limit 20

# Releases on or before a date
releasebot releases apple --before 2025-01-01

# Releases discovered on or after a date (everything since your last check)
releasebot feed --since 2026-06-30

# All releases across every vendor/product, newest-first
releasebot all --limit 50

# Your followed feed (vendors/products you follow on releasebot.io)
releasebot feed

Every data command supports --json for raw output (and emits bare TSV when piped), plus -l/--limit <n>. The release commands (releases, search-releases, all, feed) also accept --before <date> and --since <date> filters.

releasebot releases openai --json | jq '.releases[].slug'

Configuration

| Variable | Purpose | | -------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | | RELEASEBOT_API_KEY | API key (overrides the saved credentials file) | | RELEASEBOT_API_URL | Override the API base URL (default https://releasebot.io/api/v1) |

Related

• @releasebot-io/mcp — MCP server for AI agents
• Hosted MCP server: https://releasebot.io/mcp
• Learn more at releasebot.io

License

MIT