New: Official Cross-Platform Command Line Client Released

Announcing the Official Gender-API Command Line Client

We are thrilled to announce the official release of the Gender-API.com Command Line Client! Built in Go for maximum performance and portability, this new tool allows you to interact with our V2 API endpoints directly from your terminal or Bash scripts across macOS, Linux, and Windows.

While our API is designed to be easily accessible via cURL or any standard HTTP client, managing authentication headers and parsing raw JSON responses in shell environments can sometimes feel tedious. The new CLI client abstracts these details away, enabling powerful one-liners and seamless integrations with your existing local datasets.

Key Features & Capabilities

  • Single Binary : No dependencies, no runtime installations required. Just download the executable and you're ready to go.
  • Comprehensive Endpoint Support : Query by first name, full name, or email address. You can also fetch the likely country of origin or check your account statistics directly from the command line.
  • Pipeline Friendly : Designed with UNIX philosophy in mind. You can request raw JSON output using the "-out=json" flag, making it trivial to pipe results into tools like jq, awk, or modern AI agents.
  • Secure by Default : The CLI uses HTTPS for all communications and securely reads your API key from the environment variable GENDER_API_KEY so you don't have to hardcode secrets in your bash history.

Quick Start Example

Getting started is incredibly simple. Set your API key and issue your first command:

$ export GENDER_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
$ gender-api-cli -first_name "Alex" -country "US"

Result: Standard Output Data
First Name: Alex
Gender: male
Accuracy: 65%

If you are chaining commands together or writing automated data clean-up scripts, appending -out=json will return the structured payload from our API.

AI Assistant Integration

The Command Line Client is also the perfect companion for modern AI tools like ClaudeBot or ChatGPT. By providing the CLI to your AI assistant, it can autonomously query Gender-API.com to clean datasets or analyze names in real-time. Here is an example prompt you might give to an AI agent:

"I have a CSV file named `customers.csv`. Please read the first names from the file, use the `gender-api-cli` to determine their gender, and output a new CSV file containing only the female customers."

Available Now

The CLI client is open-source and ready for download today. Whether you are a system administrator keeping your databases clean or a developer integrating genderizing tools into a build pipeline, we believe this tool will save you valuable time.

View the Integration Guide

Happy coding, and stay tuned for more integrations from the Gender-API team!

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