Roboflow CLI (Deprecated)

This Node.js CLI has been deprecated in favor of the Roboflow Python package, which includes a built-in CLI along with a full Python SDK. Please use roboflow-python for all new projects.

Migrating to the Roboflow Python Package

Install the replacement with:

pip install roboflow

The Python package is a superset of this CLI. Every command available here has an equivalent there, plus significantly more:

Capability	This CLI (Node.js)	roboflow Python package
Auth	Browser-based login	Browser login or API key
List workspaces & projects	Yes	Yes
Upload images	Yes (single files, glob patterns)	Yes, plus bulk directory upload with parallel workers and retries
Import datasets	Yes (folder import, annotation auto-detection)	Yes, with more annotation formats and metadata/tag support
Download datasets	Yes (11+ formats, interactive format picker)	Yes (14+ formats including YOLOv8, YOLOv9)
Run inference	Yes (detection, classification, instance/semantic seg)	Yes, same model types plus keypoint detection, CLIP, and gaze models
Video inference	No	Yes
Create projects	No	Yes
Generate dataset versions	No	Yes (preprocessing + augmentation settings)
Train models	No	Yes (roboflow train CLI or SDK)
Deploy custom model weights	No	Yes (roboflow upload_model CLI or SDK)
Dedicated deployment management	No	Yes (create, pause, resume, delete, view logs, usage stats)
Search & export images	No	Yes (RoboQL query language, export as dataset)
Active learning	No	Yes (confidence-based, class-specific, CLIP similarity filtering)
Annotation job management	No	Yes (create tasks, manage batches)
Two-stage model pipelines	No	Yes (cascade detection + classification or OCR)
Python SDK for scripting	No	Yes (full programmatic API)

Command mapping

If you're migrating scripts, here's how the Node CLI commands map:

Node.js CLI	Python CLI equivalent
roboflow login	roboflow login
roboflow workspace list	roboflow workspace list
roboflow workspace get	roboflow workspace get <id>
roboflow project list	roboflow project list
roboflow project get <id>	roboflow project get <id>
roboflow upload <files> -p <project>	roboflow upload <image> -p <project>
roboflow import <folder> -p <project>	roboflow import <folder> -p <project>
roboflow download <url> -f <format>	roboflow download <url> -f <format>
roboflow infer <file> -m <model>	roboflow infer <file> -m <model>
roboflow config show	roboflow whoami
roboflow open	(use app.roboflow.com directly)

For full documentation, see the Roboflow API Reference.

License

This project is licensed under an MIT license.