.TH datalad-crawl 1 2018\-03\-16 "datalad-crawl 0.9.3"
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.HP
\fBdatalad\-crawl\fR [-h] [--is-pipeline] [-t] [-r] [-C\~CHDIR] [file]


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.SH DESCRIPTION
Crawl online resource to create or update a dataset.
.PP
Examples:
.PP
$ datalad crawl  # within a dataset having .datalad/crawl/crawl.cfg
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
file
configuration (or pipeline if --is-pipeline) file defining crawling, or a directory of a dataset on which to perform crawling using its standard crawling specification. Constraints: value must be a string [Default: None]

.TP
\fB-h\fR, \fB--help\fR, \fB--help-np\fR
show this help message. --help-np forcefully disables the use of a pager for displaying the help message
.TP
\fB--is-pipeline\fR
flag if provided file is a Python script which defines pipeline(). [Default: False]
.TP
\fB-t\fR, \fB--is-template\fR
flag if provided value is the name of the template to use. [Default: False]
.TP
\fB-r\fR, \fB--recursive\fR
flag to crawl subdatasets as well (for now serially). [Default: False]
.TP
\fB-C\fR \fI\s-1CHDIR\s0\fR, \fB--chdir\fR \fI\s-1CHDIR\s0\fR
directory to chdir to for crawling. Constraints: value must be a string [Default: None]
.SH AUTHORS
 datalad is developed by The DataLad Team and Contributors <team@datalad.org>.