# Install kiota with Homebrew, scoop, winget

OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator. Version 1.34.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-09. Also installable with scoop: scoop install main/kiota.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:kiota
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install kiota
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/kiota
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/kiota.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id Microsoft.OpenAPI.Kiota -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Microsoft.OpenAPI.Kiota from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:kiota
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.34.1
- **Source summary:** OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator
- **Homepage:** <https://aka.ms/kiota/docs>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/microsoft/kiota>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-09T22:04:44Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- kiota (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.34.1
## Project history and usage

Kiota is Microsoft's OpenAPI-based HTTP API client generator, distributed as a command-line tool and supported by Microsoft Learn documentation, a GitHub repository, package-manager formulas, and a Visual Studio Code extension.

### Project history

Microsoft announced Kiota's general availability on March 16, 2023, describing it as an open source generator for HTTP APIs described by OpenAPI. Its goal was to reduce the need for a separate hand-written SDK for every API while preserving strongly typed clients, authentication abstractions, retry handling, redirects, compression, and path filtering.

The Kiota repository is part of Microsoft's broader OpenAPI and Microsoft Graph tooling work. Its README describes supported generation targets including C#, Go, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, TypeScript/JavaScript, and Dart, with shared abstractions for serialization, authentication, and HTTP transport.

### Adoption history

After the March 2023 general availability announcement, Microsoft announced a Visual Studio Code extension on April 10, 2023. Package availability expanded across developer-tool channels represented in the input facts, including Homebrew, Scoop, and WinGet, making Kiota a cross-platform CLI rather than only a .NET-local tool.

### How it is used

Kiota users point the CLI or VS Code extension at an OpenAPI description, inspect and filter the desired API paths, and generate a typed client for an application. This workflow is especially useful when developers need a smaller API surface than a full vendor SDK or want the same request-builder style across multiple APIs.

### Why package nerds care

Kiota matters to package nerds because it is Microsoft shipping a general-purpose SDK generator as a standalone open source tool. It intersects with OpenAPI, Microsoft Graph, NuGet/.NET tooling, Homebrew, WinGet, Scoop, and editor extensions rather than living only inside a single language ecosystem.

### Timeline

- 2023-03-16: Microsoft announced Kiota general availability.
- 2023-04-10: Microsoft announced the Kiota Visual Studio Code extension.
- 2023-09-28: GitHub release v1.7.0-preview.202309280001 was published.
- 2023-10-05: GitHub release v1.7.0 was published.
- 2026-06-26: GitHub release v1.32.4 was published.

### Related projects

- Kiota builds on Microsoft.OpenAPI.NET and is used around Microsoft Graph scenarios. It sits beside older and broader OpenAPI generator ecosystems such as AutoRest and OpenAPI Generator while emphasizing request builders, path filtering, and shared runtime abstractions.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/kiota/releases?per_page=100>
- <https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/tailored-sdk-experiences-via-kiota-now-generally-available/>
- <https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/you-can-now-use-microsoft-kiota-within-visual-studio-code/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kiota>
- <https://github.com/microsoft/kiota>
- <https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/releases>
- <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openapi/kiota/overview>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Scoop - main/kiota: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/kiota.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - Microsoft.OpenAPI.Kiota: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Microsoft.OpenAPI.Kiota from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph