update version to 0.8.6 and update requirements

browser_cli/cli.py

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import click
 import sys
 import os
 import json
-import stat
 import shutil
 import re
 from importlib.metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version as package_version
@@ -32,12 +31,28 @@ from browser_cli.client import (
     active_browser_targets,
     display_browser_name,
     save_remote_token,
+    remote_target_for_alias,
+    remote_browser_targets,
 )
 from browser_cli.platform import install_base_dir, is_windows
 from browser_cli.registry import load_registry
 
 console = Console()
 
+# Click's Group.shell_complete hardcodes no limit for get_short_help_str (defaults to 45 chars);
+# patch to use a wider limit so zsh completion descriptions aren't truncated.
+def _patched_group_shell_complete(self, ctx, incomplete):
+    from click.shell_completion import CompletionItem
+    results = [
+        CompletionItem(name, help=command.get_short_help_str(limit=shutil.get_terminal_size().columns))
+        for name, command in self.commands.items()
+        if not command.hidden and name.startswith(incomplete)
+    ]
+    results.extend(click.Command.shell_complete(self, ctx, incomplete))
+    return results
+
+click.Group.shell_complete = _patched_group_shell_complete
+
 NATIVE_HOST_NAME = "com.browsercli.host"
 EXTENSION_ID = "bfpmkhngkjnfhabmfckgeohlilokodkg"
 
@@ -97,15 +112,25 @@ def _ensure_unique_browser_alias(alias: str, target_browser: str | None) -> None
         raise click.ClickException(f"Browser alias '{alias}' already exists")
 
 
-def _native_host_wrapper_path() -> Path:
-    base_dir = install_base_dir()
+def _native_host_exe() -> Path:
+    base = install_base_dir()
     if is_windows():
-        return base_dir / "libexec" / "native-host.cmd"
-    return base_dir / "libexec" / "native-host"
+        return base / "libexec" / "browser-cli-native-host.cmd"
+    return base / "libexec" / "browser-cli-native-host"
 
 
-def _native_host_script_path() -> Path:
-    return _native_host_wrapper_path().with_name("native_host.py")
+def _write_native_host_exe(path: Path) -> None:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    if is_windows():
+        path.write_text(
+            f'@echo off\r\n"{sys.executable}" -c "from browser_cli.native_host import main; main()" %*\r\n',
+            encoding="utf-8",
+        )
+    else:
+        path.write_text(
+            f'#!{sys.executable}\nfrom browser_cli.native_host import main\nmain()\n'
+        )
+        path.chmod(path.stat().st_mode | 0o111)
 
 
 def _windows_registry_views():
@@ -219,12 +244,34 @@ def clients_group(ctx):
 
     all_clients = []
 
+    browser_alias = (ctx.obj or {}).get("browser")
     remote = (ctx.obj or {}).get("remote") or os.environ.get("BROWSER_CLI_REMOTE")
-    if remote:
+    token = (ctx.obj or {}).get("token") or os.environ.get("BROWSER_CLI_TOKEN")
+
+    if not remote and browser_alias:
+        # --browser <host> without --remote: resolve host alias to a remote endpoint,
+        # then show ALL clients from that remote (not just the one resolved profile).
+        resolved = remote_target_for_alias(browser_alias)
+        if resolved:
+            resolved_token = token or resolved.token
             try:
-            result = send_command("clients.list", profile=(ctx.obj or {}).get("browser"))
+                targets = remote_browser_targets(resolved.remote, resolved_token)
+            except (BrowserNotConnected, RuntimeError) as e:
+                console.print(f"[red]Error:[/red] {e}")
+                sys.exit(1)
+            for target in targets:
+                try:
+                    result = send_command("clients.list", profile=target.profile, remote=resolved.remote, token=resolved_token)
                     for c in (result or []):
-                c["profile"] = c.get("profile") or (ctx.obj or {}).get("browser") or "remote"
+                        c["profile"] = target.display_name
+                        all_clients.append(c)
+                except (BrowserNotConnected, RuntimeError):
+                    continue
+    elif remote:
+        try:
+            result = send_command("clients.list", profile=browser_alias, remote=remote, token=token)
+            for c in (result or []):
+                c["profile"] = c.get("profile") or browser_alias or "remote"
                 all_clients.append(c)
         except (BrowserNotConnected, RuntimeError) as e:
             console.print(f"[red]Error:[/red] {e}")
@@ -308,22 +355,8 @@ def cmd_clients_rename(target_browser, alias):
 def cmd_install(browser):
     """Register the native messaging host and print extension load instructions."""
 
-    # Install wrapper outside PATH — the browser uses the absolute path from the
-    # native messaging manifest, so only `browser-cli` needs to be on PATH.
-    wrapper_path = _native_host_wrapper_path()
-    native_host_script_path = _native_host_script_path()
-    wrapper_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-    shutil.copy2(Path(__file__).with_name("native_host.py"), native_host_script_path)
-    if not is_windows():
-        native_host_script_path.chmod(
-            native_host_script_path.stat().st_mode | stat.S_IXUSR | stat.S_IXGRP | stat.S_IXOTH
-        )
-        wrapper_content = f'#!/bin/sh\nexec "{sys.executable}" "{native_host_script_path}" "$@"\n'
-        wrapper_path.write_text(wrapper_content)
-        wrapper_path.chmod(wrapper_path.stat().st_mode | stat.S_IEXEC | stat.S_IXGRP | stat.S_IXOTH)
-    else:
-        wrapper_content = f'@echo off\r\n"{sys.executable}" "{native_host_script_path}" %*\r\n'
-        wrapper_path.write_text(wrapper_content, encoding="utf-8")
+    host_exe = _native_host_exe()
+    _write_native_host_exe(host_exe)
 
     # Load extension
     ext_urls = {
@@ -346,14 +379,14 @@ def cmd_install(browser):
     manifest = {
         "name": NATIVE_HOST_NAME,
         "description": "browser-cli native messaging host",
-        "path": str(wrapper_path),
+        "path": str(host_exe),
         "type": "stdio",
         "allowed_origins": [f"chrome-extension://{extension_id}/"],
     }
 
     installed = []
     if is_windows():
-        manifest_dir = wrapper_path.parent
+        manifest_dir = host_exe.parent
         manifest_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
         manifest_path = manifest_dir / f"{NATIVE_HOST_NAME}.json"
         manifest_path.write_text(json.dumps(manifest, indent=2), encoding="utf-8")
@@ -380,10 +413,7 @@ def cmd_install(browser):
             console.print(f"[green]✓[/green] Registered native host: {p}")
         else:
             console.print(f"[green]✓[/green] Wrote native host manifest: {p}")
-    console.print(f"[green]✓[/green] Installed native host script: {native_host_script_path}")
-    console.print(f"[green]✓[/green] Installed native host wrapper: {wrapper_path}")
-    if is_windows():
-        console.print("\n[green]✓[/green] Wrote native host manifest:", manifest_path)
+    console.print(f"[green]✓[/green] Installed native host: {host_exe}")
 
     console.print(f"\n[bold]Step 2:[/bold] Restart {browser.capitalize()} completely (quit app, then reopen)")
     console.print("\n[green bold]✓ Installation complete![/green bold]")

com.browsercli.host.json

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "com.browsercli.host",
-  "description": "browser-cli native messaging host",
-  "path": "/REPLACE_WITH_ABSOLUTE_PATH/browser-cli/libexec/native-host",
-  "type": "stdio",
-  "allowed_origins": [
-    "chrome-extension://REPLACE_WITH_EXTENSION_ID/"
-  ]
-}

extension/manifest.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "manifest_version": 3,
   "name": "browser-cli",
-  "version": "0.8.4",
+  "version": "0.8.6",
   "description": "Control your browser from the terminal via browser-cli",
   "permissions": [
     "tabs",

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "browser-cli"
-version = "0.8.4"
+version = "0.8.6"
 description = "Control your real running browser from the terminal via a browser extension"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [

shell.nix

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ pkgs.mkShell {
   ];
 
   shellHook = ''
-    echo "browser-cli dev shell: node $(node --version), npm $(npm --version), uv $(uv --version)"
+    echo "browser-cli dev shell: node $(node --version), npm $(npm --version), uv $(uv --version | awk '{print $2}')"
 
     if [ -f package-lock.json ]; then
       if [ ! -f node_modules/.package-lock.json ] || [ package-lock.json -nt node_modules/.package-lock.json ]; then

tests/test_api.py

@@ -286,7 +286,6 @@ class TestTabs:
     def test_tabs_filter_predicate(self, b, mock_send):
         mock_send.return_value = [TAB_DATA, {**TAB_DATA, "id": 11, "url": "https://youtube.com"}]
         tabs = b.tabs_filter(lambda tab: "youtube" in tab.url)
-        print(tabs)
         assert [tab.id for tab in tabs] == [11]
 
     def test_tabs_filter_list_transformer(self, b, mock_send):

tests/test_cli.py

@@ -80,22 +80,15 @@ def test_install_help_lists_supported_browsers():
     assert "[chrome|chromium|brave|edge|vivaldi]" in result.output
 
 
-def test_install_windows_registers_native_host(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
-    local_app_data = tmp_path / "LocalAppData"
-    extension_dir = tmp_path / "extension"
-    extension_dir.mkdir()
-    native_host_src = tmp_path / "native_host.py"
-    native_host_src.write_text("print('ok')", encoding="utf-8")
+def test_install_windows_registers_native_host(tmp_path):
     writes = []
 
     class FakeKey:
         def __init__(self, path):
             self.path = path
-
         def __enter__(self):
             return self
-
-        def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc, tb):
+        def __exit__(self, _exc_type, _exc, _tb):
             return False
 
     fake_winreg = SimpleNamespace(
@@ -104,35 +97,47 @@ def test_install_windows_registers_native_host(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
         KEY_WOW64_32KEY=0x0200,
         KEY_WOW64_64KEY=0x0100,
         REG_SZ=1,
+        CreateKeyEx=lambda _root, path, _reserved, _access: FakeKey(path),
+        SetValueEx=lambda key, name, _reserved, _reg_type, value: writes.append((key.path, name, value)),
     )
 
-    def fake_create_key(root, path, reserved, access):
-        return FakeKey(path)
-
-    def fake_set_value(key, name, reserved, reg_type, value):
-        writes.append((key.path, name, value))
-
-    fake_winreg.CreateKeyEx = fake_create_key
-    fake_winreg.SetValueEx = fake_set_value
-
-    monkeypatch.setenv("LOCALAPPDATA", str(local_app_data))
-
+    host_exe = tmp_path / "browser-cli-native-host.exe"
     with patch("browser_cli.cli.is_windows", return_value=True), patch(
-        "browser_cli.cli.Path.home", return_value=tmp_path
-    ), patch("browser_cli.cli.click.prompt", return_value="abc123"), patch(
-        "browser_cli.cli.shutil.copy2"
-    ) as copy2, patch("browser_cli.cli.Path.write_text") as write_text, patch.dict(
-        sys.modules, {"winreg": fake_winreg}
-    ):
-        copy2.side_effect = lambda src, dst: Path(dst).write_text(native_host_src.read_text(encoding="utf-8"), encoding="utf-8")
+        "browser_cli.cli._native_host_exe", return_value=host_exe
+    ), patch("browser_cli.cli._write_native_host_exe"), patch(
+        "browser_cli.cli.Path.write_text"
+    ), patch.dict(sys.modules, {"winreg": fake_winreg}):
         result = CliRunner().invoke(main, ["install", "edge"])
 
     assert result.exit_code == 0
     assert any("Software\\Microsoft\\Edge\\NativeMessagingHosts\\com.browsercli.host" in path for path, _, _ in writes)
-    assert "Registered native host" in result.output
-    assert "Wrote native host manifest" in result.output
-    wrapper_writes = [call.args[0] for call in write_text.call_args_list if call.args]
-    assert any("@echo off" in text for text in wrapper_writes)
+
+def test_write_native_host_exe_unix(tmp_path):
+    from browser_cli.cli import _write_native_host_exe
+
+    host = tmp_path / "libexec" / "browser-cli-native-host"
+    with patch("browser_cli.cli.is_windows", return_value=False):
+        _write_native_host_exe(host)
+
+    assert host.exists()
+    content = host.read_text()
+    assert content.startswith(f"#!{sys.executable}")
+    assert "from browser_cli.native_host import main" in content
+    assert host.stat().st_mode & 0o111  # executable bit set
+
+
+def test_write_native_host_exe_windows(tmp_path):
+    from browser_cli.cli import _write_native_host_exe
+
+    host = tmp_path / "libexec" / "browser-cli-native-host.cmd"
+    with patch("browser_cli.cli.is_windows", return_value=True):
+        _write_native_host_exe(host)
+
+    assert host.exists()
+    content = host.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    assert "@echo off" in content
+    assert "browser_cli.native_host" in content
+
 
 def test_clients_exits_cleanly_when_registry_is_missing():
     with patch("browser_cli.cli.REGISTRY_PATH", Path("/nonexistent/browser-cli-registry.json")), patch(
@@ -163,9 +168,11 @@ def test_clients_reads_registry_with_trailing_garbage(tmp_path):
     assert "0.8.2" in result.output
 
 def test_clients_remote_uses_remote_endpoint_without_local_registry():
-    def fake_send_command(command, args=None, profile=None):
+    def fake_send_command(command, args=None, profile=None, remote=None, token=None):
         assert command == "clients.list"
         assert profile is None
+        assert remote == "127.0.0.1:8765"
+        assert token == "test"
         return [{"name": "Chrome", "version": "1", "extensionVersion": "2.3.4"}]
 
     with patch.dict(os.environ, {}, clear=True), patch(
@@ -187,7 +194,41 @@ def test_clients_remote_respects_global_browser_route():
         result = CliRunner().invoke(main, ["--remote", "127.0.0.1:8765", "--browser", "work", "clients"])
 
     assert result.exit_code == 1
-    send_command.assert_called_once_with("clients.list", profile="work")
+    send_command.assert_called_once_with("clients.list", profile="work", remote="127.0.0.1:8765", token=None)
+
+
+def test_clients_browser_alias_resolves_to_remote():
+    """--browser <host> without --remote resolves the alias, fetches all targets from that remote,
+    and shows only clients from that host (not local profiles)."""
+    from browser_cli.client import BrowserTarget
+
+    resolved_target = BrowserTarget(
+        profile="automatisation",
+        display_name="192.168.188.104:automatisation",
+        socket_path="",
+        remote="192.168.188.104:8765",
+        token="tok",
+    )
+    all_remote_targets = [resolved_target]
+
+    def fake_send_command(command, args=None, profile=None, remote=None, token=None):
+        assert command == "clients.list"
+        assert profile == "automatisation"
+        assert remote == "192.168.188.104:8765"
+        assert token == "tok"
+        return [{"name": "Chrome", "version": "147.0.0.0", "extensionVersion": "0.8.5"}]
+
+    with patch.dict(os.environ, {}, clear=True), patch(
+        "browser_cli.cli.remote_target_for_alias", return_value=resolved_target
+    ), patch(
+        "browser_cli.cli.remote_browser_targets", return_value=all_remote_targets
+    ), patch("browser_cli.cli.send_command", side_effect=fake_send_command) as send_command:
+        result = CliRunner().invoke(main, ["--browser", "192.168.188.104", "clients"])
+
+    assert result.exit_code == 0
+    send_command.assert_called_once()
+    assert "Chrome" in result.output
+    assert "0.8.5" in result.output
 
 
 def test_clients_shows_named_profile_and_uses_socket_uuid_for_default(tmp_path):
@@ -357,7 +398,6 @@ def test_groups_move_accepts_left_short_alias():
     )
 
 
-
 def test_windows_list_multi_browser_shows_browser_column():
     def fake_send_command(command, args=None, profile=None):
         assert command == "windows.list"

tests/test_dom.py

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 """Tests for dom.* commands (require an http/https active tab)."""
-import pytest
-from browser_cli.client import send_command
 
 
 def test_dom_query_body(browser, http_tab):

tests/test_extract.py

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 """Tests for extract.* commands (require an http/https active tab)."""
-import pytest
-from browser_cli.client import send_command
 
 
 def test_extract_links(browser, http_tab):
@@ -58,15 +56,3 @@ def test_extract_markdown_missing_selector_errors(browser, http_tab):
         assert "No element" in str(exc)
 
 
-def test_dom_exists(browser, http_tab):
-    browser("tabs.active", {"tabId": http_tab["id"]})
-    result = browser("dom.exists", {"selector": "body"})
-    assert result is True
-
-
-def test_dom_query(browser, http_tab):
-    browser("tabs.active", {"tabId": http_tab["id"]})
-    elements = browser("dom.query", {"selector": "body"})
-    assert isinstance(elements, list)
-    assert len(elements) > 0
-    assert elements[0].get("tag") == "body"

tests/test_groups.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 """Tests for group.* commands."""
 import pytest
-from browser_cli.client import send_command
 
 
 def test_group_list(browser):

tests/test_nav.py

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 """Tests for navigate.* commands."""
-import pytest
-from browser_cli.client import send_command
 
 
 def test_nav_open_and_close(browser):

tests/test_session.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 """Tests for session.* commands."""
 import time
-import pytest
 from browser_cli.client import send_command
 from tests.conftest import TEST_BROWSER_PROFILE
 

tests/test_tabs.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 """Tests for tabs.* commands."""
 import pytest
-from browser_cli.client import send_command
 
 
 def test_tabs_list(browser):

tests/test_windows.py

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 """Tests for windows.* commands."""
-import pytest
-from browser_cli.client import send_command
 
 
 def test_windows_list(browser):

uv.lock

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ requires-python = ">=3.10"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "browser-cli"
-version = "0.8.4"
+version = "0.8.6"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "click" },
@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ dev = [{ name = "pytest", specifier = ">=8" }]
 
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-version = "8.3.2"
+version = "8.3.3"
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