{"slug": "openai-cli-call-the-api-directly-from-your-terminal", "title": "OpenAI CLI: Call the API Directly From Your Terminal", "summary": "OpenAI published its official CLI on October 22, a Go binary that calls any OpenAI API endpoint directly from the terminal. The openai-cli is an API client — positioned as the aws-cli equivalent for OpenAI's API — rather than a coding agent like Codex CLI. The tool targets developers who previously wrote short Python scripts or used curl headers and jq pipes to test prompts and inspect batch results.", "body_md": "OpenAI published its official CLI on October 22 — not Codex, not a coding agent, but a Go binary that calls any OpenAI API endpoint directly from your terminal. If you have ever written a ten-line Python script just to test a single prompt, or wrestled with curl headers and jq pipes to inspect a batch result, there is now a better option. What This Is (and Is Not) Every developer who reads “OpenAI CLI” will picture Codex CLI, the AI coding agent. That assumption is wrong here. The new openai-cli is an API client — the aws-cli equivalent for […]\n\nThe post", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-cli-call-the-api-directly-from-your-terminal", "canonical_source": "https://byteiota.com/openai-cli-call-api-terminal/", "published_at": "2026-10-23 16:16:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-23 17:12:05.574297+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "openai-cli", "Codex CLI", "Go"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-cli-call-the-api-directly-from-your-terminal", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-cli-call-the-api-directly-from-your-terminal.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-cli-call-the-api-directly-from-your-terminal.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-cli-call-the-api-directly-from-your-terminal.jsonld"}}