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# NAME
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git-annex addurl - add urls to annex
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# SYNOPSIS
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git annex addurl `[url ...]`
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# DESCRIPTION
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Downloads each url to its own file, which is added to the annex.
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When `youtube-dl` is installed, it can be used to check for a video
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embedded in a web page at the url, and that is added to the annex instead.
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(However, this is disabled by default as it can be a security risk.
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See the documentation of annex.security.allowed-ip-addresses
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in [[git-annex]](1) for details.)
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Special remotes can add other special handling of particular urls. For
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example, the bittorrent special remotes makes urls to torrent files
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(including magnet links) download the content of the torrent,
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using `aria2c`.
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Normally the filename is based on the full url, so will look like
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"www.example.com_dir_subdir_bigfile". In some cases, addurl is able to
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come up with a better filename based on other information. Options can also
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be used to get better filenames.
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# OPTIONS
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* `--fast`
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Avoid immediately downloading the url. The url is still checked
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(via HEAD) to verify that it exists, and to get its size if possible.
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* `--relaxed`
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Don't immediately download the url, and avoid storing the size of the
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url's content. This makes git-annex accept whatever content is there
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at a future point.
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This is the fastest option, but it still has to access the network
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to check if the url contains embedded media. When adding large numbers
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of urls, using `--relaxed --raw` is much faster.
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* `--raw`
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Prevent special handling of urls by youtube-dl, bittorrent, and other
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special remotes. This will for example, make addurl
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download the .torrent file and not the contents it points to.
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* `--no-raw`
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Require content pointed to by the url to be downloaded using youtube-dl
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or a special remote, rather than the raw content of the url. if that
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cannot be done, the add will fail.
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* `--file=name`
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Use with a filename that does not yet exist to add a new file
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with the specified name and the content downloaded from the url.
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If the file already exists, addurl will record that it can be downloaded
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from the specified url(s).
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* `--preserve-filename`
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When the web server (or torrent, etc) provides a filename, use it as-is,
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avoiding sanitizing unusual characters, or truncating it to length, or any
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other modifications.
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git-annex will still check the filename for safety, and if the filename
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has a security problem such as path traversal or a control character,
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it will refuse to add it.
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* `--pathdepth=N`
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Rather than basing the filename on the whole url, this causes a path to
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be constructed, starting at the specified depth within the path of the
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url.
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For example, adding the url http://www.example.com/dir/subdir/bigfile
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with `--pathdepth=1` will use "dir/subdir/bigfile",
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while `--pathdepth=3` will use "bigfile".
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It can also be negative; `--pathdepth=-2` will use the last
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two parts of the url.
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* `--prefix=foo` `--suffix=bar`
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Use to adjust the filenames that are created by addurl. For example,
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`--suffix=.mp3` can be used to add an extension to the file.
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* `--no-check-gitignore`
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By default, gitignores are honored and it will refuse to download an
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url to a file that would be ignored. This makes such files be added
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despite any ignores.
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* `--jobs=N` `-JN`
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Enables parallel downloads when multiple urls are being added.
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For example: `-J4`
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Setting this to "cpus" will run one job per CPU core.
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* `--batch`
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Enables batch mode, in which lines containing urls to add are read from
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stdin.
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* `-z`
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Makes the `--batch` input be delimited by nulls instead of the usual
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newlines.
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* `--with-files`
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When batch mode is enabled, makes it parse lines of the form: "$url $file"
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That adds the specified url to the specified file, downloading its
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content if the file does not yet exist; the same as
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`git annex addurl $url --file $file`
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* `--json`
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Enable JSON output. This is intended to be parsed by programs that use
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git-annex. Each line of output is a JSON object corresponding to an url
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being processed.
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* `--json-progress`
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Include progress objects in JSON output.
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* `--json-error-messages`
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Adds an "error-messages" field to the JSON that contains messages that
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would normally be output to the standard error when processing an url.
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* `--json-exceptions`
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Output additional JSON objects for some exceptions that are not
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associated with a particular url.
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* `--backend`
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Specifies which key-value backend to use.
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* Also the [[git-annex-common-options]](1) can be used.
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# CAVEATS
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If annex.largefiles is configured, and does not match a file, `git annex
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addurl` will add the non-large file directly to the git repository,
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instead of to the annex. However, this is not done when --fast or --relaxed
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is used.
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# SEE ALSO
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[[git-annex]](1)
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[[git-annex-rmurl]](1)
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[[git-annex-registerurl]](1)
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[[git-annex-importfeed]](1)
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# AUTHOR
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Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
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Warning: Automatically converted into a man page by mdwn2man. Edit with care.
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