# boss-cli
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A CLI for BOSS 直聘 — search jobs, view recommendations, manage applications, chat with recruiters, **and manage candidates as a recruiter** via reverse-engineered API 🤝
[English](#features) | [中文](#功能特性)
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## Features
- 🔐 **Auth** — auto-extract browser cookies (10+ browsers), QR code login, `--cookie-source` explicit browser selection, live validation against real search APIs
- 🔍 **Search** — jobs by keyword with city/salary/experience/degree/industry/scale/stage/job-type filters
- ⭐ **Recommendations** — personalized job recommendations based on profile
- 📋 **Detail & Export** — view full job details, short-index navigation (`boss show 3`), CSV/JSON export
- 📜 **History** — browse job viewing history
- 👤 **Profile** — view personal info, resume status
- 📮 **Applications** — view applied jobs list
- 📋 **Interviews** — view interview invitations
- 💬 **Chat** — view communicated boss list
- 🤝 **Greet** — send greetings to recruiters, single or batch (with 1.5s rate-limit delay)
- 🏙️ **Cities** — 40+ supported cities
- 🤖 **Agent-friendly** — structured output envelope (`{ok, schema_version, data}`), Rich output on stderr
- 👔 **Recruiter Mode** — view posted jobs, manage candidates, chat history, export candidate data (CSV/JSON)
## Installation
```bash
# Recommended: uv tool (fast, isolated)
uv tool install kabi-boss-cli
# Or: pipx
pipx install kabi-boss-cli
# Optional: YAML output support
pip install kabi-boss-cli[yaml]
```
Upgrade to the latest version:
```bash
uv tool upgrade kabi-boss-cli
# Or: pipx upgrade kabi-boss-cli
```
From source:
```bash
git clone git@github.com:jackwener/boss-cli.git
cd boss-cli
uv sync
```
## Usage
```bash
# ─── Auth ─────────────────────────────────────────
boss login # Auto-detect browser cookies, fallback to QR
boss login --cookie-source chrome # Extract from specific browser
boss login --qrcode # QR code login only
boss status # Check login status (validates real search session, shows cookie names)
boss logout # Clear saved cookies
# ─── Search ───────────────────────────────────────
boss search "golang" # Search jobs
boss search "Python" --city 杭州 # Filter by city
boss search "Java" --salary 20-30K # Filter by salary
boss search "前端" --exp 3-5年 # Filter by experience
boss search "AI" --degree 硕士 # Filter by degree
boss search "后端" --industry 互联网 # Filter by industry
boss search "产品" --scale 1000-9999人 # Filter by company size
boss search "数据" --stage 已上市 # Filter by funding stage
boss search "运维" --job-type 全职 # Filter by job type
boss search "后端" --city 深圳 -p 2 # Pagination
# ─── Detail & Export ──────────────────────────────
boss show 3 # View job #3 from last search
boss detail <securityId> # View full job details
boss detail <securityId> --json # JSON output (with schema envelope)
boss export "Python" -n 50 -o jobs.csv # Export search results to CSV
boss export "golang" --format json -o jobs.json # Export as JSON
# ─── Recommendations ──────────────────────────────
boss recommend # View recommended jobs
boss recommend -p 2 --json # Next page, JSON output
# ─── Personal Center ─────────────────────────────
boss me # View profile
boss me --json # JSON output
boss applied # View applied jobs
boss interviews # View interview invitations
boss history # View browsing history
boss chat # View communicated bosses
# ─── Greet ────────────────────────────────────────
boss greet <securityId> # Send greeting to a boss
boss greet <securityId> --json # JSON result
boss batch-greet "golang" --city 杭州 -n 5 # Batch greet top 5
boss batch-greet "Python" --salary 20-30K --dry-run # Preview only
# ─── Utilities ────────────────────────────────────
boss cities # List supported cities
boss --version # Show version
boss -v search "Python" # Verbose logging (request timing)
```
## Recruiter Mode (雇主端)
If you are an employer on BOSS直聘, these commands let you manage candidates from the terminal:
```bash
# ─── Search & Discover (搜索 & 发现) ─────────────
boss recruiter search "golang" --city 深圳 --exp 3-5年 # Search candidates
boss recruiter recommend # Recommended candidates
boss recruiter recommend --job <encryptJobId> # Switch to different 岗位
boss recruiter recommend -p 2 # Next page
# ─── Greet & Communicate (沟通) ──────────────────
boss recruiter greet <encryptGeekId> # Initiate chat with candidate
boss recruiter batch-view "Python" --city 杭州 -n 10 # Batch view top 10 (triggers "viewed" notice)
boss recruiter inbox # View candidate messages
boss recruiter inbox --job <encryptJobId> -p 2 # Filter by job, page 2
boss recruiter reply <friendId> "感谢您的关注..." # Reply to candidate
boss recruiter chat <friendId> # View chat history
# ─── Chat Actions (沟通页操作) ───────────────────
boss recruiter request-resume <friendId> --yes # 求简历
boss recruiter exchange-phone <friendId> --yes # 换电话
boss recruiter exchange-wechat <friendId> --yes # 换微信
boss recruiter invite-interview <geekId> --job <id> # 约面试
boss recruiter mark-unsuitable <geekId> --job <id> # 不合适
# ─── Resume (简历) ───────────────────────────────
boss recruiter resume <encryptGeekId> # View full resume in terminal
boss recruiter resume-download <id> --job <jobId> # Download resume as Markdown
boss recruiter geek <encryptGeekId> --job-id 526908510 # Quick candidate info
# ─── Job Management (职位管理) ───────────────────
boss recruiter jobs # List your posted jobs
boss recruiter job-close <encryptJobId> --yes # Take job offline
boss recruiter job-reopen <encryptJobId> --yes # Bring job back online
# ─── Export & Tags ───────────────────────────────
boss recruiter labels # View candidate tags
boss recruiter export -o candidates.csv # Export to CSV
boss recruiter export --format json -o out.json # Export to JSON
```
### Recruiter Workflow Example
```bash
# 1. Check your posted jobs
boss recruiter jobs
# 2. Browse recommended candidates for a specific job
boss recruiter recommend --job f806096ea327cd610nZ80t21FVNQ
# 3. Search for specific skills
boss recruiter search "golang" --city 深圳
# 4. View a candidate's full resume
boss recruiter resume <encryptGeekId> --job <encryptJobId>
# 5. Download resume for offline review
boss recruiter resume-download <encryptGeekId> --job <encryptJobId>
# 6. Start a conversation
boss recruiter greet <encryptGeekId>
# 7. Check inbox and reply
boss recruiter inbox -p 1
boss recruiter reply <friendId> "感谢您的关注，方便电话聊聊吗？"
# 8. Export all candidates
boss recruiter export --format json -o candidates.json
```
## Structured Output
All commands with `--json` / `--yaml` use a unified output envelope (see [SCHEMA.md](./SCHEMA.md)):
```json
{
"ok": true,
"schema_version": "1",
"data": { ... }
}
```
- **Non-TTY stdout** → auto YAML (agent-friendly)
- **`--json`** → explicit JSON
- **Rich output** → stderr (won't pollute pipes: `boss search X --json | jq .data`)
## Authentication
boss-cli supports multiple authentication methods:
1. **Saved cookies** — loads from `~/.config/boss-cli/credential.json`
2. **Browser cookies** — auto-detects installed browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, Arc, Chromium, Opera, Vivaldi, Safari, LibreWolf)
3. **QR code login** — terminal QR output using Unicode half-blocks, scan with Boss 直聘 APP
`boss login` auto-extracts browser cookies first, falls back to QR login. Use `--cookie-source chrome` to specify a browser, or `--qrcode` to skip browser detection. The command now verifies the saved credential against a real authenticated API before reporting success.
#### Chromium 127+ on Windows (App-Bound Encryption)
New Chrome/Edge versions may prevent `browser-cookie3` from decrypting the on-disk Cookie database. As a safe workaround, let the browser return its own cookies over an explicitly enabled loopback CDP endpoint:
```powershell
# Use a separate browser profile for CDP.
& "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" `
--remote-debugging-port=9222 `
--user-data-dir="$env:USERPROFILE\.boss-cli-edge"
# Log in to zhipin.com in that window, then:
$env:BOSS_CDP_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:9222"
boss login
boss status
Remove-Item Env:BOSS_CDP_URL
```
The CLI tries CDP first when `BOSS_CDP_URL` is set and no `--cookie-source` is specified. Both the HTTP and WebSocket addresses must be loopback addresses; proxies and redirects are disabled. CDP lets the browser decrypt its own cookies. If CDP fails, the usual browser-cookie3 and QR login fallbacks still apply. Close the debugging browser after login. The separate profile persists at the path above; delete it when no longer needed.
`boss recommend` follows the live web app's current recommendation data source and request context, which improves compatibility when the legacy recommendation endpoint is rejected.
`boss status --json` now reports per-flow health such as `search_authenticated` and `recommend_authenticated`, which helps diagnose partial-session issues. To avoid turning repeated checks into their own anti-bot problem, health snapshots are cached briefly in-memory.
### Cookie TTL & Auto-Refresh
Saved cookies auto-refresh from browser after **7 days**. If browser refresh fails, falls back to stale cookies and logs a warning.
## Rate Limiting & Anti-Detection
- **Gaussian jitter**: request delays with `random.gauss(0.3, 0.15)`
- **Random long pauses**: 5% chance of 2-5s pause to mimic reading
- **Rate-limit auto-cooldown**: code=9 triggers exponential backoff (10s→20s→40s→60s) + request delay doubling
- **Exponential backoff**: auto-retry on HTTP 429/5xx (max 3 retries)
- **Response cookie merge**: `Set-Cookie` headers merged back into session
- **HTML redirect detection**: catches auth redirects to login page
- **Browser fingerprint**: macOS Chrome 145 UA, `sec-ch-ua`, `DNT`, `Priority` headers
- **Request logging**: `boss -v` shows request URLs, status codes, and timing
## Use as AI Agent Skill
boss-cli ships with a [`SKILL.md`](./SKILL.md) that teaches AI agents how to use it.
### [Skills CLI](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills) (Recommended)
```bash
npx skills add jackwener/boss-cli
```
| Flag | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `-g` | Install globally (user-level, shared across projects) |
| `-a claude-code` | Target a specific agent |
| `-y` | Non-interactive mode |
### Manual Install
```bash
mkdir -p .agents/skills
git clone git@github.com:jackwener/boss-cli.git .agents/skills/boss-cli
```
### ~~OpenClaw / ClawHub~~ (Deprecated)
> ⚠️ ClawHub install method is deprecated and no longer supported. Use [Skills CLI](#skills-cli-recommended) or Manual Install above.
## Project Structure
```text
boss_cli/
├── __init__.py # Package version
├── cli.py # Click entry point (lightweight, add_command only)
├── client.py # API client (rate-limit, cooldown, retry, anti-detection)
├── auth.py # Authentication (10+ browsers, QR login, TTL refresh)
├── constants.py # URLs, headers (Chrome 145), city codes, filter enums
├── exceptions.py # Structured exceptions (BossApiError hierarchy)
├── index_cache.py # Short-index cache for `boss show`
└── commands/
├── _common.py # SCHEMA envelope, handle_command, stderr console
├── auth.py # login (--cookie-source/--qrcode), logout, status, me
├── search.py # search, recommend, detail, show, export, history, cities
├── personal.py # applied, interviews
├── social.py # chat, greet (--json), batch-greet (1.5s delay)
└── recruiter.py # recruiter-jobs, inbox, geek, chat, labels, export
```
## Development
```bash
# Install dependencies
uv sync
# Run tests
uv run pytest tests/ -v
# Smoke tests (need cookies)
uv run pytest tests/ -v -m smoke
# Lint
uv run ruff check .
```
## Troubleshooting
**Q: `boss status` says not authenticated but local cookies still exist**
`boss status` now verifies the session against a real search API. If `authenticated=false`, your local credential file exists but the underlying web session is no longer usable.
**Q: `环境异常 (__zp_stoken__ 已过期)`**
Your session cookies have expired. Run `boss logout && boss login` to refresh. If QR login only returns a partial cookie set, log in from a browser first and then run `boss login`.
**Q: `暂无投递记录` but I have applied**
Some features require fresh `__zp_stoken__`. Try re-logging in from a browser, then `boss login`.
**Q: Search returns no results**
Check your city filter. Some keywords are city-specific. Use `boss cities` to see available cities.
---
## 功能特性
- 🔐 **认证** — 自动提取浏览器 Cookie（10+ 浏览器），二维码扫码登录，`--cookie-source` 指定浏览器
- 🔍 **搜索** — 按关键词搜索职位，支持城市/薪资/经验/学历/行业/规模/融资阶段/职位类型筛选
- ⭐ **推荐** — 基于求职期望的个性化推荐
- 📋 **详情 & 导出** — 职位详情，编号导航 (`boss show 3`)，CSV/JSON 导出
- 📜 **历史** — 查看浏览历史
- 👤 **个人** — 查看个人资料
- 📮 **投递** — 查看已投递职位列表
- 📋 **面试** — 查看面试邀请
- 💬 **沟通** — 查看沟通过的 Boss 列表
- 🤝 **打招呼** — 向 Boss 打招呼/投递，支持批量操作（内置 1.5s 防风控延迟）
- 🏙️ **城市** — 40+ 城市支持
- 🤖 **Agent 友好** — 结构化输出 envelope，Rich 输出走 stderr
- 👔 **招聘方模式** — 查看职位、候选人管理、聊天记录、导出候选人数据 (CSV/JSON)
## 使用示例
```bash
# 认证
boss login # 自动提取浏览器 Cookie，失败则二维码
boss login --cookie-source chrome # 指定浏览器
boss status # 检查登录状态
boss logout # 清除 Cookie
# 搜索 & 详情
boss search "golang" --city 杭州 # 按城市搜索
boss search "AI" --industry 互联网 --scale 1000-9999人 # 行业+规模
boss search "数据" --stage 已上市 --salary 30-50K # 融资+薪资
boss show 3 # 按编号查看详情
boss detail <securityId> --json # 指定 ID 查看（JSON envelope）
boss export "Python" -n 50 -o jobs.csv # 导出 CSV
# 推荐 & 历史
boss recommend # 个性化推荐
boss history # 浏览历史
# 个人中心
boss me --json # 个人资料（JSON）
boss applied # 已投递
boss interviews # 面试邀请
boss chat # 沟通列表
# 打招呼
boss greet <securityId> --json # 单个打招呼
boss batch-greet "golang" -n 10 # 批量打招呼
boss batch-greet "golang" --dry-run # 预览
# 工具
boss cities # 城市列表
boss -v search "Python" # 详细日志
```
## 招聘方模式
```bash
# 搜索 & 推荐
boss recruiter search "golang" --city 深圳 --exp 3-5年
boss recruiter recommend --job <encryptJobId> # 按岗位查看推荐牛人
boss recruiter recommend -p 2 # 翻页
# 沟通
boss recruiter greet <encryptGeekId> # 向候选人打招呼
boss recruiter batch-view "Python" -n 10 # 批量查看 (触发被查看通知)
boss recruiter inbox -p 1 # 查看候选人消息
boss recruiter reply <friendId> "您好..." # 回复候选人
# 沟通页操作
boss recruiter request-resume <friendId> # 求简历
boss recruiter exchange-phone <friendId> # 换电话
boss recruiter exchange-wechat <friendId> # 换微信
boss recruiter invite-interview <id> --job <id> # 约面试
boss recruiter mark-unsuitable <id> --job <id> # 不合适
# 简历
boss recruiter resume <encryptGeekId> # 终端查看简历
boss recruiter resume-download <id> --job <id> # 下载简历为 Markdown
# 职位管理
boss recruiter jobs # 查看招聘职位
boss recruiter job-close <encryptJobId> # 关闭职位
boss recruiter job-reopen <encryptJobId> # 重新开启
# 导出
boss recruiter labels # 查看标签
boss recruiter export -o candidates.csv # 导出候选人
```
## 常见问题
- `环境异常` — Cookie 过期，执行 `boss logout && boss login` 刷新
- 搜索无结果 — 检查城市筛选或关键词，使用 `boss cities` 查看支持的城市
## License
Apache-2.0