diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index a0b082c..e20698a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ Changelog
 * Use blocking RPC call in ``Client.create_database``.  Asynchronous
   method is removed in Odoo.
 
+* Return the interactive namespace with ``main(interact=False)``.
+  It helps to integrate with third-party libraries, such as IPython.
+
 * Remove a duplicate ``Logged in as ...`` line in interactive mode.
 
 * Remove the ``search+name_get`` undocumented feature which has
diff --git a/erppeek.py b/erppeek.py
index a1d10d5..8464bc0 100644
--- a/erppeek.py
+++ b/erppeek.py
@@ -1558,7 +1558,7 @@ def runcode(self, code):
     Console().interact('\033[A')
 
 
-def main():
+def main(interact=_interact):
     description = ('Inspect data on Odoo objects.  Use interactively '
                    'or query a model (-m) and pass search terms or '
                    'ids as positional parameters after the options.')
@@ -1631,7 +1631,7 @@ def main():
         if not client.user:
             client.connect()
         # Enter interactive mode
-        _interact(global_vars)
+        return interact(global_vars) if interact else global_vars
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()
diff --git a/tests/test_interact.py b/tests/test_interact.py
index 46b37b7..79425b4 100644
--- a/tests/test_interact.py
+++ b/tests/test_interact.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ def setUp(self):
         mock.patch('erppeek.Client._set_interactive', wraps=erppeek.Client._set_interactive).start()
         self.interact = mock.patch('erppeek._interact', wraps=erppeek._interact).start()
         self.infunc = mock.patch('code.InteractiveConsole.raw_input').start()
+        mock.patch('erppeek.main.__defaults__', (self.interact,)).start()
 
     def test_main(self):
         env_tuple = ('http://127.0.0.1:8069', 'database', 'usr', None)