vis-downloader 1.1.0

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Vis Downloader

Download visibilties from CASDA.

Installation

I haven't published on PyPI yet so run:

# From PyPI
pip install vis-downloader
# - OR -
# Latest git version
pip install git+https://github.com/AlecThomson/vis-downloader

Usage

To make sure you don't DDoS CASDA, please make use of the --max-workers option.

usage: vis_download [-h] [--beam BEAM] [--output-dir OUTPUT_DIR] [--username USERNAME] [--store-password] [--reenter-password]
                    [--max-workers MAX_WORKERS] [--extract-tar] [--download-holography] [--log-only] [--disable-progress] [--quiet]
                    [--max-retries MAX_RETRIES]
                    sbids [sbids ...]

Download visibilities from CASDA for a given SBID

positional arguments:
  sbids                 SBID to download

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --beam BEAM           Beam to download. Defaults to all.
  --output-dir OUTPUT_DIR
                        Output directory. If unset a directory for each SBID will be created.
  --username USERNAME   CASDA username
  --store-password      Store password in keyring
  --reenter-password    Reenter password
  --max-workers MAX_WORKERS
                        Number of workers
  --extract-tar         If a file is a tarball attempt to extract it. This removes the original tar file if successful.
  --download-holography
                        Download the evaluation files that contain the holography data
  --log-only
  --disable-progress    Disable the progress bars produced by `tqdm`.
  --quiet               Silence logged output and progress bar updates
  --max-retries MAX_RETRIES
                        The maximum number of retries allowed for each file when downloading.

To cache your CASDA credentials run:

casda_login -h
# usage: casda_login [-h] username
#
# Login to CASDA and save credentials
#
# positional arguments:
#   username    Username for CASDA
#
# options:
#   -h, --help  show this help message and exit

Note that you will also want to set the CASDA_USERNAME environment variable for non-interactive use.

License

vis-downloader is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.