diff --git a/tests/tools/test_api_urls_to_typescript.py b/tests/tools/test_api_urls_to_typescript.py
index dc5532d5ab21..70a7728ba9e0 100644
--- a/tests/tools/test_api_urls_to_typescript.py
+++ b/tests/tools/test_api_urls_to_typescript.py
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@
             r"^(?P<organization_id_or_slug>[^/]+)/events/(?P<project_id_or_slug>[^/]+):(?P<event_id>(?:\d+|[A-Fa-f0-9-]{32,36}))/$",
             ["$organizationIdOrSlug/events/$projectIdOrSlug:$eventId/"],
         ),
+        # Escaped literal characters lose their backslash
+        (
+            r"^scm-git/repositories/(?P<repository_id>[0-9]{1,19})\.git/(?P<route>.+)$",
+            ["scm-git/repositories/$repositoryId.git/$route"],
+        ),
     ),
 )
 def test_regexp_to_route(input_regexp, expected) -> None:
diff --git a/tools/api_urls_to_typescript.py b/tools/api_urls_to_typescript.py
index b8e3c9fe5c3a..487b333e09dd 100644
--- a/tools/api_urls_to_typescript.py
+++ b/tools/api_urls_to_typescript.py
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ def replace_named_group(match: re.Match[str]) -> str:
     # Handle optional trailing slash
     route = re.sub(r"/\?$", "/", route)
 
+    # Unescape literal characters like \. so the route holds the character itself
+    route = re.sub(r"\\([^\w\s])", r"\1", route)
+
     # Clean up any double slashes that might have been created
     route = re.sub(r"/+", "/", route)