kite instruments

Download and search the Kite instrument master offline. The downloaded JSON is cached locally; search reads the cache, no API call involved.

Commands

Command	Purpose
kite instruments download [--exchange <EXC>]	Download and cache the instrument master. Prints { cached: true, path: ... }.
kite instruments search <text> [--exchange <EXC>]	Search the local cache. Matches trading symbol, name, or instrument token. Limit 25 hits.

Cache location

%LocalAppData%\kite-cli\instruments\<EXC-or-all>.json

On macOS / Linux this resolves to the platform local-application-data folder.

Examples

kite instruments download --json --no-color              # all exchanges
kite instruments download --exchange NSE --json --no-color # only NSE

kite instruments search INFY --json --no-color             # search name
kite instruments search INFY --exchange NSE --json --no-color
kite instruments search 408065 --json --no-color           # search numeric token

Common error: cache is missing

If instruments search fails with Instrument cache is missing. Run 'kite instruments download' first., simply run instruments download and retry. search is the only Kite CLI command that does not require authentication — it only reads the cache file.

See also

• kite quote consumes exchange-prefixed symbols from this master.
• kite historical consumes the numeric instrument token returned by search.