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Command line client for interaction with DANDI instances

Project description

DANDI Client

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The DANDI Python client allows you to:

  • Download Dandisets and individual subject folders or files
  • Validate data to locally conform to standards
  • Organize your data locally before upload
  • Upload Dandisets
  • Interact with the DANDI instance's web API from Python
  • Delete data in the DANDI instance
  • Perform other auxiliary operations with data on the DANDI instance

Note: This project is under active development. See the issues log or Work-in-Progress (WiP).

Installation

DANDI Client releases are available from PyPI and conda-forge. Install them in your Python (native, virtualenv, or conda) environment via

pip install dandi

or

conda install -c conda-forge dandi

CLI Tool

This package provides a command line utility with a basic interface to help you prepare and upload your data to, or obtain data from, a DANDI instance such as the DANDI Archive.

$> dandi
Usage: dandi [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  A client to support interactions with a DANDI instance, such as the DANDI Archive
  (http://dandiarchive.org).

  To see help for a specific command, run

      dandi COMMAND --help

  e.g. dandi upload --help

Options:
  --version
  -l, --log-level [DEBUG|INFO|WARNING|ERROR|CRITICAL]
                                  Log level (case insensitive).  May be
                                  specified as an integer.  [default: INFO]
  --pdb                           Fall into pdb if errors out
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  delete            Delete dandisets and assets from the server.
  digest            Calculate file digests
  download          Download a file or entire folder from DANDI.
  instances         List known DANDI instances that the CLI can interact
  ls                List .nwb files and dandisets metadata.
  move              Move or rename assets in a local Dandiset and/or on...
  organize          (Re)organize NWB files according to their metadata.
  shell-completion  Emit shell script for enabling command completion.
  upload            Upload Dandiset files to DANDI Archive.
  validate          Validate files for data standards compliance.

Run dandi --help or dandi <subcommand> --help (e.g. dandi upload --help) to see manual pages.

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