mycli

Release v2.0.0

Roland Walker — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0700

mycli is a command line interface for MySQL which includes auto-completion and syntax highlighting.

Read the install instructions to find out how to get the latest version.

Mycli v2.0.0 has breaking changes!

Major features added in recent months include

powerful fuzzy history search with fzf (thanks lazmond3!)
integrated …

New Project Lead for mycli

Amjith Ramanujam — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Roland Walker a long time contributor and a core dev of the mycli project has agreed to take over the project lead duties of mycli project. Roland is passionate about mycli and uses it every day at his work. He has an encouraging demeanor towards fellow contributors and takes a …

DBCLI demos at PyCon

Amjith Ramanujam — Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 -0700

Do you love colorful, terminal applications?

Are you going to Pycon this year?

You can't afford to miss the DBCLI booth at PyCon.

We are an OpenSource org that builds commandline database clients with modern features. Auto-completion, syntax highlighting and friendly UI.

DBCLI is the umbrella org that builds mycli …

Release v1.16.0

Thomas Roten — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0800

mycli is a command line interface for MySQL that includes auto-completion and syntax highlighting. Read the install instructions to find out how to get the latest version.

Mycli 1.16.0 was released on January 1, 2018 and includes these changes:

Features

Add DSN aliases to the config file (Thanks …

Release v1.15.0

Thomas Roten — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0800

mycli is a command line interface for MySQL that includes auto-completion and syntax highlighting. Read the install instructions to find out how to get the latest version.

Mycli 1.15.0 was released on December 23, 2017 and includes these changes:

Features

Completes table aliases in WHERE clauses (Thanks: Dick …

Release v1.14.0

Thomas Roten — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0800

mycli is a command line interface for MySQL that includes auto-completion and syntax highlighting. Read the install instructions to find out how to get the latest version.

Mycli 1.14.0 was released on December 22, 2017 and includes these changes:

Features

Add a watch command to repeat a query …

Kickstarter Experience

Amjith Ramanujam — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700

My first successful open source project was pgcli. It was launched more than two years ago. It was very well-received at that time. It topped the charts on Github, HackerNews and Reddit.

I received a few requests via twitter to add support for mysql database in pgcli. Somehow this didn't …

Mycli

Amjith Ramanujam — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0700

Mycli is a user-friendly commandline client for MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, TiDB, and Apache Doris. It has unique features like autocompletion and syntax highlighting that make it easy to use.

Mycli is written in Python using the wonderful prompt-toolkit library. It is cross-platform and is well tested on Linux and macOS …

Test - First post

Amjith Ramanujam — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0700

This is a test blog post.