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economist-tui

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Read The Economist from your terminal using your subscription. Unofficial CLI and TUI with agent skill support.

#python#textual#tui#cli

Overview

A terminal interface for reading The Economist magazine. Uses your existing subscription credentials to fetch and display articles in a clean, distraction-free format.

Features

  • TUI mode – browse issues and articles with keyboard navigation
  • CLI mode – fetch articles programmatically
  • SKILL.md included – works with AI coding agents out of the box
  • Offline caching – read previously fetched articles without internet

Installation

brew install tmustier/tap/economist-tui

Or with pip:

pip install economist-tui

Usage

# Launch the TUI
economist-tui

# CLI: list recent issues
economist-tui issues

# CLI: fetch a specific article
economist-tui article <url>

Why?

I wanted to read The Economist without the website's distractions, and I wanted my coding agents to be able to fetch article content for research tasks.