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Appwrite CLI

The Appwrite CLI is a command-line application that allows you to interact with the Appwrite server and perform server-side tasks using your terminal. This includes creating and managing projects, managing resources (documents, files, users), creating and deploying Appwrite Functions, and other operations available through Appwrite's API.

Installation

The CLI is packaged both as an npm module as well as a standalone binary for your operating system, making it completely dependency free, platform independent and language agnostic.

If you plan to use the CLI to initialize new Appwrite Functions, ensure that Git is installed on your machine.

Install with NPM

If you have npm set up, run the command below to install the CLI

npm install -g appwrite-cli

Install with Script

For a completely dependency-free installation, the CLI also ships with a convenient installation script for your operating system

MacOS

Using Homebrew

brew tap appwrite/sdk-for-cli https://github.com/appwrite/sdk-for-cli
brew update
brew install --HEAD appwrite

or terminal

curl -sL https://appwrite.io/cli/install.sh | bash

Windows

iwr -useb https://appwrite.io/cli/install.ps1 | iex

Linux

curl -sL https://appwrite.io/cli/install.sh | bash

After the installation is complete, verify the install using

appwrite -v

Getting Started

Before you can use the CLI, you need to login to your Appwrite account using

appwrite login

Self-Signed Certificates

By default, requests to domains with self-signed SSL certificates (or no certificates) are disabled. If you trust the domain, you can bypass the certificate validation using

appwrite client --selfSigned true

You can run your first CLI command after logging in. Try fetching information about your Appwrite project.

appwrite projects get --projectId [PROJECT_ID]

Next Steps

You can use the CLI to create and deploy functions and collections. Deploy commands allow you to configure your Appwrite project programmatically and replicate functions and collection schemas across Appwrite projects.

Learn more about deployment

Besides utility commands, the CLI can be used to execute commands like a Server SDK.

Find a full list of commands

You can choose to use the CLI in a headless and non-interactive mode without the need for config files or sessions. This is useful for CI or scripting use cases.

Learn more about CI mode

Help

If you get stuck anywhere, you can always use the help command to get the usage examples.

Configuration

At any point, if you would like to change your server's endpoint, project ID, or self-signed certificate acceptance, use the client command.

appwrite client --endpoint https://cloud.appwrite.io/v1
appwrite client --key 23f24gwrhSDgefaY
appwrite client --selfSigned true
appwrite client --reset // Resets your CLI configuration
appwrite client --debug // Prints your current configuration

Uninstall

If you installed Appwrite CLI using NPM, you can use the following command to uninstall it.

npm uninstall -g appwrite-cli

If you installed the Appwrite CLI with brew or the installation script for your operating system, use the following command to uninstall it.

MacOS

Using Homebrew

brew uninstall appwrite

or terminal

rm -f /usr/local/bin/appwrite | bash

Windows

$APPWRITE_INSTALL_DIR = Join-Path -Path $env:LOCALAPPDATA -ChildPath "Appwrite"; Remove-Item -Force -Path $APPWRITE_INSTALL_DIR

Linux
```
rm -f /usr/local/bin/appwrite | bash
```

You can also remove the configuration, cookies, and API Keys the Appwrite CLI stored. To remove those, run the following command.

MacOS
```
rm -rf ~/.appwrite | bash
```

Windows

$APPWRITE_CONFIG_DIR = Join-Path -Path $env:UserProfile -ChildPath ".appwrite"; Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -Path $APPWRITE_CONFIG_DIR

Linux
```
rm -rf ~/.appwrite | bash
```