GSFetch

GSFetch is a command-line tool designed to accelerate file downloads from the GenomeScan Customer Portal. It leverages multiprocessing to significantly improve download speeds and efficiency. Works on linux, windows and macOS.

Installation

There are 3 options for installing GSport.

1. Executable (can be a little slow to startup)
2. Pip install
3. Manual installation

1: Executable

This is only available for Windows and linux at the moment. Simply download the executable from the latest release

2: Pip install

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed:

• Python 3.8.X
• Pip (Python package manager)
• python-venv (Linux/ macOS) or virtualenv(windows)

pip install gsfetch

3: Manual install

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed:

• Python 3.10.X
• Pip (Python package manager)
• python-venv (Linux/ macOS) or virtualenv(windows)

Linux/macOS

git clone https://github.com/genomescan/gsfetch.git
cd gsfetch
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Windows

git clone https://github.com/genomescan/gsfetch.git
cd gsfetch
virtualenv env
env\Scripts\activate.bat
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

To see all available options, run:

python gsfetch.py --help