Drive Qianwen / Qwen chat from the terminal. All commands run through your existing browser session — no API key needed.
Mode: 🔐 Browser · Domain: www.qianwen.com
| Command |
Description |
Access |
opencli qwen status |
Page availability, login state, current model and session |
read |
opencli qwen history |
List recent conversations (requires login) |
read |
opencli qwen read |
Read messages in the current conversation |
read |
opencli qwen detail <id> |
Open a conversation by ID and read its messages |
read |
opencli qwen ask <prompt> |
Send a prompt and wait for the assistant reply |
write |
opencli qwen send <prompt> |
Fire-and-forget: send a prompt without waiting |
write |
opencli qwen new |
Start a fresh conversation |
write |
opencli qwen image <prompt> |
Generate images (AI 生图) and save them locally |
write |
# Sanity check
opencli qwen status
# Recent conversations
opencli qwen history --limit 10
# Read the active conversation as markdown
opencli qwen read --markdown true
# Read a specific historical conversation by ID (or full URL)
opencli qwen detail abcd1234ef567890abcd1234ef567890
opencli qwen detail https://www.qianwen.com/chat/abcd1234ef567890abcd1234ef567890 --markdown true
# Ask a question and wait for the reply
opencli qwen ask "用一段话解释 transformer attention"
# Ask in a brand-new chat with DeepThink turned on
opencli qwen ask "推导 KL 散度的链式法则" --new true --think true
# Fire-and-forget (don't wait for the reply)
opencli qwen send "继续上面的推导" --think true
# Start a new conversation
opencli qwen new
# Generate an image and save it locally
opencli qwen image "a watercolor fox sketching on paper"
# Custom output directory
opencli qwen image "cyberpunk skyline" --op ~/Downloads/qwen-images
# Skip download — just print the share link
opencli qwen image "a tiny robot" --sd true
| Option |
Description |
prompt |
Prompt to send (required positional) |
--new |
Start a new chat before sending (default: false) |
--think |
Enable 深度思考 (DeepThink) |
--research |
Enable 深度研究 (DeepResearch) |
--markdown |
(ask only) Emit assistant reply as markdown |
--timeout |
(ask only) Max seconds to wait for the reply (default: 120) |
| Option |
Description |
prompt |
Image prompt (required positional) |
--op |
Output directory (default: ~/Pictures/qianwen) |
--new |
Start a new chat before generating (default: true) |
--sd |
Skip download; only print the conversation link |
--timeout |
Max seconds to wait for the image response (default: 180) |
| Option |
Description |
--markdown |
Emit assistant replies as markdown (default: false) |
| Option |
Description |
id |
Session ID (32-char hex) or full https://www.qianwen.com/chat/<id> URL (required positional) |
--markdown |
Emit assistant replies as markdown (default: false) |
| Option |
Description |
--limit |
Max conversations to list (default: 20, max 100) |
| Command |
Columns |
status |
Status, Login, Model, SessionId, Url |
history |
Index, Title, Updated, Url |
read |
Role, Text |
detail |
Role, Text |
ask |
Role, Text |
send |
Status, Prompt |
new |
Status |
image |
Status, File, Link |
read works without login (guest mode), but history and most write flows require an authenticated session- Qwen commands default to persistent site sessions, so consecutive
qwen ask / qwen read / qwen image invocations continue in the same Qwen page. Pass --site-session ephemeral for a one-shot tab.
ask waits for the streaming reply to finish; send returns immediately after submission- DeepThink (
--think) and DeepResearch (--research) toggle the corresponding composer chips before submitting
- Generated image files are timestamped to avoid overwriting prior runs
status returns Model / SessionId as null when they cannot be detected (e.g. guest mode, page still loading) rather than a string sentinel — branch on null in agent code- DOM or product changes on Qwen can break composer detection —
opencli qwen status is the quickest sanity check
limit is validated and rejected with ArgumentError if non-positive or above the documented max (e.g. history max 100); no silent clamp