Link parkin’: Talk Python has a CLI
Michael Kennedy introduces the tool in a recent blog post:
TL;DR: Talk Python now has an open-source CLI tool (talk-python-cli) that lets you search 500+ podcast episodes, transcripts, guests, and training courses directly from your terminal. Install it with
uv tool install talk-python-cli. It supports text, JSON, and markdown output: built for humans, scripts, and AI/LLMs alike.…
Why build a CLI tool?
I believe Talk Python becomes more valuable as it is used and referenced more by the community. The CLI tool closes an important gap. Here are just some examples:
- Terminal-first developers: “I live in my terminal, don’t make me open a browser to find that episode about FastAPI”
- Automation / scripting folks: “I want to pipe podcast data into my workflows and script it”
- AI / LLM builders: “I need real, high-quality Python community content for my RAG pipeline or podcast assistant”
- LLM Chat without MCP: “The MCP server solves the rapid access to live data challenge for AIs that support MCP and whose users has installed it. But many LLMs don’t support MCP. I’m looking at you ChatGPT.”
I’m primarily looking at this as design inspiration for retrocast. As in identifying some basic, essential concepts and operations that make sense for searching a podcast episode repository.
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