synapse-dl-snippet.md

Code snippets to download data from Synapse

Full instructions for programmatic downloads here.

You need:

• to register for a username and password on Synapse
• to install the Python package: pip install synapseclient

syn22164713 is a placeholder for the dataset ID on Synapse.

Python

import synapseclient 
 
syn = synapseclient.Synapse() 
syn.login() 

# Obtain a pointer and download the data 
entity = syn.get(entity='syn22164713' ) 

# Get the path to the local copy of the data file 
filepath = entity.path 

Command line

synapse get syn22164713