Kaggle CLI is Kaggle’s official command-line interface for interacting with the Kaggle platform from a terminal. It lets users authenticate, search resources, download files, submit competition entries, manage datasets, work with models, run notebooks, and read discussion content without relying only on the web interface. The tool is useful for data scientists who want to automate Kaggle workflows inside scripts, CI jobs, notebooks, or reproducible local environments. It supports both traditional API-token authentication and an OAuth login flow, which makes it more flexible for different usage patterns. kaggle-cli is especially practical when working with large datasets or repeated competition submissions that would be slow to handle manually. Its main value is turning Kaggle’s web-based data science platform into a scriptable developer workflow.
Features
- Official Kaggle command-line interface
- Competition listing, downloads, and submissions
- Dataset creation, updating, downloading, and deletion
- Model and model-variation management
- Notebook listing, updating, running, and output downloading
- OAuth and API-token authentication options