readwise-cli

• Readwise CLI: Everything You've Read, from the Command Line

  • Readwise's own official command-line tool for searching, reading, and organizing Readwise and Readwise/Reader data from the terminal.

  • Features

    • Hybrid (vector + full-text) search across the whole reading library
    • Retrieves saved articles, books, PDFs, podcasts, and newsletters as Markdown
    • Saves URLs and new documents to Reader
    • Manages tags, locations (inbox, archive, later, shortlist), and bulk edits
    • Creates, updates, and deletes highlights with notes
    • Daily spaced-repetition review of highlights
    • Exports entire libraries as Markdown files
    • Integrates with AI coding agents, including Claude/Code, via pre-built workflow skills

  • Installation

    • npm install -g @readwise/cli
    • readwise login for browser-based OAuth, or readwise login-with-token for headless environments

  • GitHub/Stars

    • 61 as of 2026-07-03 Fri — readwiseio/readwise-cli

  • My Notes

    • 2026-07-03 Fri

      • Now my preferred CLI for Readwise, replacing rw-cli, which I used before.
      • Vendored its workflow skills into My/Knowledge/Garden/logseq-encode-garden (.rulesync/skills/, refreshed by the readwise-skills-sync skill), skipping readwise-mcp since that garden wires the CLI, not the MCP server
        • chose this over readwise skills install — the installer writes to ~/.claude and copies only each SKILL.md, dropping sibling scripts like build_graph.py