ydiskarc 1.0.1

yydiskarc: a command-line tool to backup documents from Yandex.Disk public resources

ydiskarc (pronounced Ai-disk-arc) is a command line tool used to backup Yandex.Disk public resources. Public resources are opnly shared files and folders from Yandex.Disk service. Yandex provides free-to-use API that allow to download the data.

Contents

• 1 Main features

• 2 Installation

  • 2.1 Any OS

  • 2.2 Python version

• 3 Usage

• 4 Commands

  • 4.1 Sync command

  • 4.2 Full command

1 Main features

• Metadata extraction

• Download any public resource file or directory

2 Installation

2.1 Any OS

A universal installation method (that works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, …, and always provides the latest version) is to use pip:

# Make sure we have an up-to-date version of pip and setuptools:
$ pip install --upgrade pip setuptools

$ pip install --upgrade ydiskarc

(If pip installation fails for some reason, you can try easy_install ydiskarc as a fallback.)

2.2 Python version

Python version 3.6 or greater is required.

3 Usage

Synopsis:

$ ydiskarc [command] [flags]

See also python -m ydiskarc and ydiskarc [command] --help for help for each command.

4 Commands

4.1 Sync command

Synchronizes files and metadata from public resource of directory type to the local directory.

Extracts all files and metadata from “https://disk.yandex.ru/d/VVNMYpZtWtST9Q” resource to the dir “mos9maystyle”

$ ydiskarc sync --url https://disk.yandex.ru/d/VVNMYpZtWtST9Q -o mos9maystyle

4.2 Full command

Downloads single file or directory. Single file downloaded with original file format. Directory downloaded as ZIP file with all files inside.

Downloads file from url “https://disk.yandex.ru/i/t_pNaarK8UJ-bQ” and saves it into folder “files” with metadata saved as “_metadata.json”

$ ydiskarc full --url https://disk.yandex.ru/i/t_pNaarK8UJ-bQ -o files -v -m