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Forces eg, download with youtube-dl without falling back to raw download. Since youtube-dl failing due to an url not being supported is difficult to distinguish from it failing due to being blocked in some way, this can be useful to avoid the fallback of git-annex downloading the raw web page and adding that. Since --raw also prevents using special remotes, --no-raw also allows special remote downloads. Although it's always possible that some special remote may claim an url and fall back to raw download of the content, which --no-raw cannot prevent. Sponsored-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on Patreon
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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 an escape sequence,
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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.
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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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Messages that would normally be output to standard error are included in
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the json instead.
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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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