# weaviate-cli mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für weaviate-cli in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:weaviate-cli
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install weaviate-cli
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:weaviate-cli
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.4.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Command-line interface for managing and interacting with Weaviate
- **Homepage:** <https://pypi.org/project/weaviate-cli/>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-27T19:01:12Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- weaviate-cli (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 3.4.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Weaviate CLI is the command-line interface for managing and interacting with Weaviate vector databases from a terminal. It wraps database-administration and data workflows such as collection management, import, querying, multi-tenancy, backups, sharding, and role management.

The CLI belongs to the Weaviate ecosystem, where the underlying database is an open-source vector database for semantic search, hybrid search, retrieval-augmented generation, recommendations, chatbots, and related AI application patterns.

### Projektgeschichte

The PyPI release history shows that weaviate-cli began with early 0.0.x releases in May 2019. That places the CLI close to the early public period of Weaviate as an open-source vector search/database project.

The project appears to have gone through a quiet or unsupported period: in February 2024, a Weaviate community forum response said the weaviate-cli tool was not under development anymore. Later PyPI metadata shows a renewed 3.x release line, with 3.3.0 in January 2026, 3.4.0 in April 2026, and 3.4.1 in May 2026.

The current README describes a modern Python 3.10-plus CLI with commands for collections, data, tenants, backups, replication, shard status, query types, and role assignment. It also documents Homebrew installation and a JSON configuration file under ~/.config/weaviate/config.json.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The CLI's adoption is tied to Weaviate's shift from vector-search infrastructure into a mainstream AI application platform. Weaviate's own documentation describes the database, Weaviate Cloud, query agents, managed embeddings, and external model-provider integrations as parts of the product surface developers evaluate and operate.

For operators and developers, the CLI is a lightweight administrative companion to SDKs, cloud consoles, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, and application code. It gives repeatable terminal commands for tasks that otherwise require custom scripts or UI interaction.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Common usage includes creating a collection, importing test or application data, running vector, keyword, or hybrid queries, changing tenant state, starting backups to S3, GCS, or filesystem backends, restoring backups, inspecting shards, and assigning or revoking roles.

Configuration is file-based by default. The README says the CLI looks for ~/.config/weaviate/config.json, can create default localhost settings, and can store remote host, gRPC host, API-key authentication, per-user authentication entries, and provider headers such as OpenAI, Cohere, or Jina keys.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

weaviate-cli is significant as the shell entry point for a vector database ecosystem. It packages database-management operations into commands that can be used in demos, CI scripts, local development, and operational runbooks for AI search or RAG systems.

Its history also shows the churn around fast-moving AI infrastructure: an early CLI, a period where community support described it as inactive, and a later 3.x line matching the renewed need for command-line management of vector-database deployments.

### Zeitleiste

- 2019-05-21: PyPI records weaviate-cli 0.0.3, the earliest listed release.
- 2024-02-02: A Weaviate forum response says the older weaviate-cli tool is not under development anymore.
- 2025-2026: PyPI shows renewed 3.x releases.
- 2026-05-08: PyPI records weaviate-cli 3.4.1, the latest release observed during this enrichment run.

### Related projects

- Weaviate CLI is related to Weaviate Database, Weaviate Cloud, the Weaviate Python client, Docker and Kubernetes Weaviate deployments, vector search engines, RAG frameworks, and model-provider integrations such as OpenAI, Cohere, and Jina.

### Quellen

- <https://docs.weaviate.io/weaviate>
- <https://forum.weaviate.io/t/cant-set-up-weaviate-cli/1356>
- <https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate>
- <https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate-cli>
- <https://pypi.org/project/weaviate-cli/>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/weaviate/weaviate-cli/main/README.md>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für weaviate-cli wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.



## Configuration and credential file locations

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## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.config/weaviate/config.json

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.config/weaviate/config.json

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/weaviate-cli.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/weaviate-cli.yml)


## Quellen

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- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
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- cross-ecosystem install command graph