This program allows you to search your civicrm contacts and print the result, from the comfort of your shell. After you install it globally, it creates a program *civicrm" you can call from the cli.
I wrote it because it's faster to type $civicrm Xavier than going to a browser, authenticating, going to /civicrm and type on the search tool on the top left to get contact detail
you can have several civicrm sites you can query
##installation $sudo npm -g install civicrm-cli
##configuration The configuration file contains all the key and api_keys of your site and is stored in ~/.config/civicrm.json
The needed parameters (site url, key, api_key) are going to be prompted the first time you run the program or when you run $civicrm setup
you can as well provide them from the command line $civicrm setup -s example --server=https://example.org --key=yoursitekey --api_key=theapikeyofyouruser
##usage $civicrm -s example xavier --> return the list of matching contacts 42: Dutoit, Xavier
$civicrm -s example view 42
Xavier Dutoit
+41 22 123 45 67
demo@example.org
$civicrm -s example csv xavier > xavier.csv