URL: /cli/feedback

---
title: "feedback"
description: "Send feedback to the squirrelscan team"
---

The `feedback` command lets you send feedback, bug reports, and feature requests directly to the squirrelscan team.

## Usage

```bash
squirrel feedback
squirrel feedback --category bug_report
```

## Options

| Option | Description |
| ------ | ----------- |
| `--category` | Feedback category: `bug_report`, `feature_request`, `what_worked`, `confusing`, `missing_data`, `tool_ergonomics`, or `other` |

## Interactive Prompts

The command will prompt you for:

1. **Email** - Your email address (cached for future use)
2. **Feedback** - Your feedback message (minimum 5 characters)
3. **Category** - An optional category (skipped when `--category` is passed; press Enter to skip)

## Example Session

```bash
$ squirrel feedback
Email: you@example.com
Feedback: Would love to see a PDF export format!

Category (optional):
  1) Bug report
  2) Feature request
  3) Something worked well
  4) Something was confusing
  5) Missing data in a report
  6) Tool ergonomics
  7) Other
Category [Enter to skip]: 2

Thank you for your feedback!
```

## Subsequent Uses

Your email is cached, so you can press Enter to reuse it:

```bash
$ squirrel feedback
Email [you@example.com]:
Feedback: The HTML report looks great!

Thank you for your feedback!
```

## What to Send

### Bug Reports

Include:
- What you were doing
- What you expected
- What happened instead
- Error messages if any

```
Bug: squirrel audit fails on localhost URLs
Expected: Should crawl localhost
Got: Error "Invalid URL"
```

### Feature Requests

Describe the feature and why it would be useful:

```
Feature request: Add XML sitemap export
Use case: Want to generate sitemap from crawl results
```

### General Feedback

Share your experience:

```
Loving the CLI speed! JSON export is perfect for CI/CD
```

## Privacy

- Your email is stored locally at `~/.squirrel/settings.json`
- Feedback is transmitted securely to squirrelscan servers
- Your install ID is included (anonymous identifier)
- No crawl data or audit results are transmitted

## Alternative: GitHub Issues

For public bug reports and feature requests, you can also use GitHub:

- Issues: https://github.com/squirrelscan/squirrelscan/issues
- Discussions: https://github.com/squirrelscan/squirrelscan/discussions

## Related

- [self settings](/cli/self#settings) - Manage stored email and other settings