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Introduction

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Product

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CLI

Command-line interface for expand.ai

Installation

Install the expand.ai CLI to fetch and process web content from your terminal.

npm install -g expandai

pnpm

add

-g

expandai

bun add -g expandai

npx expandai fetch https://example.com

Commands

fetch

Fetch and display markdown content from any URL.

# Display as markdown (default)
expandai fetch https://example.com

# Get full JSON response with metadata
expandai fetch https://example.com --format json

login

Authenticate with expand.ai. The command prompts for an API key and stores it in ~/.expandai/config.json.

expandai login

whoami

Display your current authentication status.

expandai whoami

mcp install

Install the expand.ai MCP server in your AI coding assistant.

expandai mcp install

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Installation Commands fetch login whoami mcp install