# client.cli_listen

> The cli_listen methods of the morevoice Python SDK: The CLI's `listen` tunnel: events and tool calls forwarded to your machine.

The CLI's `listen` tunnel: events and tool calls forwarded to your machine. These methods are on `client.cli_listen`, where `client` is a `MoreVoice` client (see [the Python SDK](https://docs.morevoice.ai/sdk/python/#connect)). On `AsyncMoreVoice` the same methods are awaited. Each one returns the response object and raises an exception when the API answers with an error.

## `stream()`

**Open a CLI listen session.** The stream behind the CLI's `listen` command: your organisation's events for this key's mode (each with the exact body and Standard Webhooks headers to POST to your local endpoint, signed with the session's secret) and, with `forward_tools=true`, tool calls to answer from your machine — tools whose URL is `cli://<name>` and, in test mode, every webhook tool of your test calls. The session ends when the stream closes. Use a test key; a live key needs `live=true` and the `webhooks:write` scope. Counts against the key's stream limit.

`client.cli_listen.stream()` · `await async_client.cli_listen.stream()` · `GET /cli/listen` · [API reference](https://docs.morevoice.ai/api/operations/cli_listen_stream/)

### Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `events` | `string \| string[]` | no | Event types to forward: a type (`call.ended`), a group (`call.*`) or `*`; comma-separated or repeated. Default: every event (opt-in live types only when named). |
| `forward_tools` | `"true" \| "false"` | no | `true`: this session answers tool calls — tools whose URL is `cli://<name>` and, in test mode, every webhook tool of the organisation's test calls. Needs the `tools:write` scope. |
| `live` | `"true" \| "false"` | no | Required (`true`) with a live key: live events and tool calls of live calls reach your machine. Needs the `webhooks:write` scope. |
| `last_event_id` | `string` | no | Resume after this event (`evt_…`), for clients that cannot send `Last-Event-ID`. |

### Returns

A stream of events (Server-Sent Events): iterate it, or `async for` it on `AsyncMoreVoice`.

### Example

```python
import os

import httpx

url = "https://api.morevoice.ai/v1/cli/listen"
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['MOREVOICE_API_KEY']}", "Accept": "text/event-stream"}
with httpx.stream("GET", url, headers=headers, timeout=None) as response:
    response.raise_for_status()
    for line in response.iter_lines():
        if line.startswith("data:"):
            print(line[5:].strip())
```