How do I access drush commands specific to CiviCRM?

Question

I have installed CiviCRM 5.31 on Drupal 8 with the following set of commands according to the official Drupal and CiviCRM documentation:

cd /var/www
composer create-project drupal/recommended-project:8.9.8 d8.example.org
cd d8.example.org
composer require drush/drush
vendor/bin/drush site:install
composer config extra.enable-patching true
composer require civicrm/civicrm-asset-plugin:'~1.1'
composer require civicrm/civicrm-{core,packages,drupal-8}:'~5.31'
# now enable CiviCRM module in web UI

Now I want to setup scheduled jobs as outlined in CiviCRM's documentation. Running vendor/bin/drush civicrm-api, however, leads to the following error:

Command "civicrm-api" is not defined.

As of November 2020, cv is untested for Drupal 8, so I would like to use drush. What's the "official" way to do this?

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Software versions

• PHP 7.3.24
• mysql 8.0.22
• Composer 2.0.6
• Drush Commandline Tool 10.3.5
• Drupal 8.9.8
• CiviCRM 5.31.0

Answer 1

The readme for cv needs updating. It's now tested pretty well with drupal 8. I would use cv instead.

See also https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/drupal/-/issues/76