Chatbang – Access ChatGPT from the terminal without an API key
How does it work? Chatbang works by scraping ChatGPT's website. It opens ChatGPT on a headless session when you execute Chatbang and take your prompt and paste it in ChatGPT's prompt area and execute that prompt, then it waits for the response and copies it as a markdown format and then render it in the terminal.
Chatbang – Access ChatGPT from the terminal without an API key launched on August 17, 2025 with 21 votes, #634 of 8,530 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Chatbang is a terminal tool that lets developers access ChatGPT without requiring an API key. It works by automating a headless browser session to interact with ChatGPT's website, submitting prompts and retrieving responses in markdown format for display in the terminal. This approach eliminates the need for API authentication while providing command-line access to ChatGPT's capabilities.
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From the sources
A CLI tool to access ChatGPT from the terminal without an API key - ahmedhosssam/chatbang
Chatbang is a simple tool to access ChatGPT from the terminal, without needing for an API key. curl -L https://github.com/ahmedhosssam/chatbang/releases/latest/download/chatbang -o chatbang chmod +x chatbang sudo mv chatbang /usr/bin/chatbang Install from source: git clone [email protected]:ahmedhosssam/chatbang.git cd chatbang go mod tidy go build main.go sudo mv main /usr/bin/chatbang Configuration Note: You need to execute chatbang --config at least once to create the config file in the directory $HOME/.config/chatbang . Chatbang requires a Chromium-based browser (e.g. Chrome, Edge, Brave) to work, so you need to have one installed. And then make sure that the config file points to the…from github.com
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