If you’ve ever tried to automate anything in Feishu (ByteDance’s collaboration platform), you know the pain. There’s no official command-line interface, so you either cobble together HTTP requests or resign yourself to clicking through the UI like a caveman. That’s why this open-source project caught my eye—it’s a CLI that wraps Feishu’s APIs into something you can actually use from the terminal.
The project is called “lark-cli” (Lark is Feishu’s international name), and it’s crossed 10,000 stars on GitHub. That number tells you something: developers were hungry for this. No bloat, no dashboards, just a single binary that lets you send messages, manage docs, query contacts, and even trigger webhooks—all from the command line. The repo is well-organized, with clear examples for every command.
What makes it genuinely useful is how it handles authentication. Instead of forcing you to juggle tokens and app IDs manually, it walks you through setting up a Feishu app and stores the credentials locally. One-time setup, then you’re good. The commands follow a logical pattern: lark message send --content "Deploy finished" --chat-id xxx. Simple.
I’ve been using it for automated deployment notifications. Instead of writing a Python script that imports Feishu’s SDK (which is heavy and often poorly documented), I just drop a shell command in my CI pipeline. It works. The response time is decent, and because it communicates directly with Feishu’s APIs, you don’t need an intermediary server.
The maintainers also included a plugin system, so you can extend it with custom commands. That’s a nice touch—means it can grow beyond basic CRUD operations. The community has already contributed modules for things like calendar management and approval workflows.
One thing I appreciate: the documentation is in both Chinese and English. Not all Feishu-related tools bother with that. The project is actively maintained, with regular releases and a responsive issue tracker. If you’re in a team that uses Feishu and you do any kind of automation, this is worth a look. It’s one of those tools that makes you wonder why nobody built it sooner.