I Built a CLI Tool For College Football Data/Analysis
I’ve been using CFBD this offseason and wanted an easy way to connect the data to AI coding agents, so I built this:
https://github.com/jvorndran/fbs-cli
It’s basically like an MCP, but it uses a CLI instead, which is more token efficient and creates less context bloat. It currently supports all 71 CFBD GET endpoints and returns the data as YAML.
For example:
fbs games --year 2026 --week 1 --team Florida
You’ll still need your own CFBD API key, then you can set it up by running:
fbs auth
I’ve been using it with Codex in my own college football research workflows and it works pretty well. This article has some interesting evals comparing CLI tools with MCP if you’re curious about why I built it this way:
https://www.scalekit.com/blog/mcp-vs-cli-use
Would love any feedback or ideas for what to add next.