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).

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 

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.

• To learn how to interact with the DANDI Archive and for examples on how to use the DANDI Client in various use cases, see the DANDI Docs (specifically the sections on using the CLI to download and upload Dandisets).

• To get help:

  • ask a question: https://github.com/dandi/helpdesk/discussions
  • file a feature request or bug report: https://github.com/dandi/helpdesk/issues/new/choose
  • contact the DANDI team: help@dandiarchive.org

• To understand how to contribute to the dandi-cli repository, see the DEVELOPMENT.md file.