Read the docs from your terminal

Search, list and print any Plivo documentation page from the shell. No credentials, no browser.

plivo docs reads the Plivo documentation without leaving the shell. It needs no credentials, so it works before you have authenticated, and inside CI containers and coding agents where nobody can open a browser.

Command: plivo docs <subcommand>

plivo docs search <keywords...>

Search the full text of every page. A page matches only if it contains all the keywords, and results are ranked by how often those keywords appear. Matching is case-insensitive and substring based, so partial words and API field names both work.

• --limit <int>: maximum results (default 10).

plivo docs search audio streaming
plivo docs search bidirectional
plivo docs search 10dlc brand registration -o json

plivo docs list

List every documentation page.

plivo docs show <path-or-title>

Print one page in full. The reference can be a URL, a path fragment such as voice/api/call, or a page title, and the most specific match wins.

plivo docs show voice/api/call
plivo docs show "Account API"

Cache, refresh and offline use

The full text is cached under ~/.plivo/cache for a day, so repeat searches are instant. If the network is unreachable the CLI serves the stale cache rather than failing, which keeps the docs readable on a bad connection. --refresh bypasses the cache and re-fetches; it is a group flag, so it works on plivo docs itself and on all three subcommands.

The same content without the CLI

Every page on the documentation site is also available as plain Markdown: append .md to any URL. Two index files summarise the whole site for LLMs and agents, and they are what plivo docs reads.

curl -s https://www.plivo.com/docs/llms.txt               # index of every page, with one-line summaries
curl -s https://www.plivo.com/docs/llms-full.txt          # every page, in one file
curl -s https://www.plivo.com/docs/voice/quickstart/quickstart.md

For a synthesised, cited answer instead of raw pages, use plivo ask.