5 Developer CLI Tools I Built and Published on npm This Week

Last week, I challenged myself to build and publish five CLI tools on npm in seven days. Not toy projects or hello-world wrappers -- real tools that solve real problems I kept running into as a developer. The constraint forced me to ship fast, cut scope ruthlessly, and focus on the one thing each tool needed to do well. Here they are: a web scraper that outputs clean Markdown, a GitHub repo health checker, a dependency auditor, a GitHub profile analyzer, and a URL metadata extractor. Each one is open source, installable with a single npm install -g , and designed to play nicely with pipes, jq , and CI/CD workflows. Let me walk you through all five. 1. websnap-reader -- Reader Mode for Your Terminal The problem: I read a lot of technical articles, and I wanted a way to grab article content from URLs without the ads, nav bars, cookie banners, and JavaScript junk. I also wanted to pipe article text into other tools -- LLMs, search indexes, note-taking scripts -- and needed clean Markdown,