Genomic Data Commons API wrapper

A simple Python wrapper for the GDC Application Programming Interface (API)

The GDC API drives the GDC Data and Submission Portals and provides programmatic access to GDC functionality. This includes searching for, downloading, and submitting data and metadata.

Features implemented

• Downloading a Single File using GET
• Downloading Multiple Files using POST

Usage

Installation

pip install gdc-api-wrapper

Download single file

from gdcapiwrapper.data import Data
Data.download(uuid="uuid-file-you-wanna-download", path="/local/path", name="filename")

NOTE: path and name are optional, by default path is your current directory and if name is not provided it will be saved with the UUID as filname.

Download multiple files

from gdcapiwrapper.data import Data
Data.download_multiple(uuid_list=["UUID1", "UUID2", "UUID3"], path="/local/path")

NOTE: path is optional, by default path is your current directory.