What is tool4seller CLI?
tool4seller CLI is a command-line tool that enables AI coding assistants to securely access your tool4seller account data. Once installed and authorized, you can ask your AI assistant to retrieve store, product, advertising, inventory, and other business data directly in the conversation without signing in to the tool4seller console.
What Your AI Assistant Can Do with tool4seller CLI
tool4seller CLI currently supports the following data and capabilities:
| Data Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Store Authorization | Retrieve store authorization status, SP API status, Advertising API status, and store activation status. |
| User Information | Retrieve default currency, time zone, display language, account creation time, and other account information. |
| Sales Summary | Retrieve sales summaries, daily sales data, and SKU-level sales data for a specified date range. |
| Listings & Inventory | Retrieve Listing and inventory data, including FBA/MFN inventory information, with filtering by ASIN, SKU, and other conditions. |
| Inventory Alerts | Retrieve inventory alerts such as low inventory, excess inventory, long-term storage fees, and recommended removals. |
| FBA Shipments | Retrieve FBA shipment information and shipment details. |
| Traffic Data | Retrieve sales, traffic, and conversion data by store, ASIN, parent ASIN, and daily dimensions. |
| Profit Data | Retrieve profit data by store, SKU, ASIN, parent ASIN, and daily dimensions. |
| Advertising Data | Retrieve advertising performance, campaigns, targeting, search terms, and attributed purchase data. |
| Review | Retrieve product rating data for parent ASINs with Review Tracking enabled. |
Note: tool4seller CLI provides data access capabilities. Data analysis and interpretation are performed by AI assistants.
Use Cases
tool4seller CLI enables AI coding assistants to securely access your tool4seller data through local commands, allowing you to retrieve data and perform business analysis using natural language.
| Example Prompt | What tool4seller CLI Can Help With |
|---|---|
| Review my store performance over the last 7 days. | Summarize key business metrics including orders, units sold, sales, profit, profit margin, ad spend, ad sales, ACOS, and ROAS, and compare performance across your stores. |
| How is this SKU / ASIN performing? | Analyze key metrics for a specific SKU, ASIN, or parent ASIN, including orders, units sold, sales, profit, ad spend, attributed orders, ad sales, ACOS, ROAS, and conversion rate. |
| Which SKUs need to be restocked? How many units should I replenish? | Identify low-stock or out-of-stock SKUs and recommend replenishment quantities based on inventory coverage and current inventory status. |
| How are the traffic and conversion metrics for this ASIN? | Review impressions, clicks, click-through rate (CTR), orders, conversion rate (CVR), ad sales, ad spend, and ACOS to evaluate traffic quality and conversion performance. |
| Find the ad campaigns, search terms, or targeting that need optimization. | Identify campaigns, search terms, and targeting with high spend, high ACOS, low CTR, or low conversion rates to help prioritize optimization opportunities. |
| Track product ratings and identify products with reputation risks. | Review rating data for parent ASINs with Review Tracking enabled to identify declining ratings, low-rated products, and products that may require attention. |
Before You Begin
Before installing tool4seller CLI, make sure you have:
- A tool4seller account
- A supported AI coding assistant, such as Claude Code or the Work or Codex agent in the ChatGPT desktop
- Python installed if your AI assistant does not include a built-in Python environment
Install tool4seller CLI
Send the Installation Prompt
In your AI assistant, enter the following prompt:
Please install the tool4seller CLI for me: https://www.tool4seller.com/cli-installation-guide.md
Complete the Installation
tool4seller CLI requires a Python environment.
Some AI coding assistants include Python by default. If Python is not available, follow your AI assistant's instructions to install it. Once Python is installed, the AI assistant will continue the CLI installation automatically.
Sign In and Authorize
After the installation is complete, your AI assistant will automatically open a browser window for authorization.
Sign in with your tool4seller account and complete the authorization process.
Get Started
After authorization, you can start querying your tool4seller data directly from your AI assistant.
For example, try:
List my stores
Available Data
tool4seller CLI currently supports access to your store information, product data and reports, advertising data, inventory information, and shipment data, allowing you to retrieve the information you need through natural language conversations with your AI assistant.
Current Limitations
- User Accounts can use tool4seller CLI to access data for their own stores.
- When signed in with a User Account, you cannot access stores assigned or shared by the Primary Account. To access data for these stores, sign in with the corresponding Primary Account.
Tip
Once installation is complete, you can interact with tool4seller CLI using natural language. There is no need to memorize specific commands. Just ask your AI assistant what you need.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between tool4seller MCP and tool4seller CLI? Do I need to set up both?
No. Both tool4seller MCP and tool4seller CLI provide access to your tool4seller data, but they are designed for different types of AI tools. Choose the integration that matches the AI tool you are using. You do not need to set up both.
tool4seller MCP works with AI tools that support the Model Context Protocol (MCP), such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Codex.
tool4seller CLI works with AI coding assistants that can execute local commands, such as Claude Code and Codex CLI.
What should I do if the sign-in page does not open automatically after installation?
Ask your AI assistant:
Help me complete the tool4seller CLI sign-in and authorization.
Then follow the instructions provided by your AI assistant. Once authorization is complete, you can verify it by asking:
List my stores.
Can I use tool4seller CLI with a User Account?
User Accounts can use tool4seller CLI to access data for their own stores. However, stores assigned or shared by a Primary Account are not accessible when signed in with a User Account. To access data for these stores, sign in with the corresponding Primary Account.