Downloading datasets using command line
From the terminal window on your computer, you can use wget or curl.
- Make sure you have wget or curl installed.
- Click on the Dataset name, then click on the copy link icon galaxy-link. This is the direct-downloadable dataset link.
- Once you have the link, use any of the following commands:
- For wget
wget '<link>'
wget -O '<link>'
wget -O --no-check-certificate '<link>' # ignore SSL certificate warnings
wget -c '<link>' # continue an interrupted download
- For curl
curl -o outfile '<link>'
curl -o outfile --insecure '<link>' # ignore SSL certificate warnings
curl -C - -o outfile '<link>' # continue an interrupted download
- For wget
- For dataset collections and datasets within collections you have to supply your API key with the request
- Sample commands for wget and curl respectively are:
wget https://usegalaxy.org/api/dataset_collections/d20ad3e1ccd4595de/download?key=MYSECRETAPIKEY
curl -o myfile.txt https://usegalaxy.org/api/dataset_collections/d20ad3e1ccd4595de/download?key=MYSECRETAPIKEY
- Sample commands for wget and curl respectively are:
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