Command-line tool and TypeScript library

tagesschau

Read German news from your terminal — tagesschau is a command-line tool for ARD-aktuell’s keyless Tagesschau API (tagesschau.de): browse the curated front page, filter the news feed by topic or Bundesland, list broadcast channels, and run full-text searches — all as clean JSON you can pipe straight into jq.

Version 0.0.7 npm GitHub API reference

Install

Needs Node.js 20 or newer. Installs the tagesschau command:

npm i -g @maschinenlesbar.org/tagesschau-cli

Access

No account, no API key, no configuration — install and query.

Quick start

tagesschau homepage

Commands

All commands, arguments and options →

Claude Code skills

The tagesschau plugin teaches Claude to use tagesschau. Install it from the maschinenlesbar.org marketplace:

/plugin marketplace add maschinenlesbar-org/plugins
/plugin install tagesschau@maschinenlesbar

What the skills answer, with real examples → Skill descriptions and requirements →

TypeScript library

@maschinenlesbar.org/tagesschau-cli is also a typed API client you can import in your own code, with no runtime HTTP dependencies.

API reference → Library usage and architecture →

The tool, not the data

The data comes from the provider behind the API, under its own terms — see DATA_LICENSE.md. The code is dual-licensed AGPL-3.0-or-later or commercial — see LICENSING.md.