> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.akta.pro/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Setup

> Command-line tool for company search, structured company data, news monitoring, and alternative signals, backed by the Akta REST API

The `akta-pro-cli`  is a command-line client for the akta.pro REST API. A sibling of the Akta MCP server. Both are thin clients over the same endpoints; the CLI is the presentation layer for humans and shell scripts. It ships as its own self-contained distribution (`akta-pro-cli`) with no MCP-server code.

## Installation

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="pipx">
    To install using pipx:

    ```bash theme={null}
    pipx install akta-pro-cli
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="uv">
    `uv` is Astral's faster modern alternative to pipx. It writes a PATH-aware shim on first run, so no extra setup step is needed:

    ```bash theme={null}
    uv tool install akta-pro-cli
    ```

    Requires `uv` to be installed first — see [Astral's install guide](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/).
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="pip">
    Use `pip` when you're embedding `akta-pro-cli` in a Python project (rather than using `akta` as a standalone tool — see the **pipx** or **uv** tabs for that):

    ```bash theme={null}
    pip install akta-pro-cli
    ```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## Authentication

Authenticate using akta.pro API key. Visit [playground.akta.pro](https://playground.akta.pro) to get your API key.

```bash theme={null}
akta-pro login --api-key wk_...
```

`akta-pro login` validates the key against a free endpoint and stores it at `~/.config/akta/credentials.json` (mode `0600`; `%APPDATA%\akta` on Windows).

```bash theme={null}
akta-pro login --api-key wk_...   # store without the prompt
akta-pro whoami                   # show the active key (masked), its source, and validate
akta-pro logout                   # remove the stored key
```