Upload to NV comand line tool

[chrisgorgo]

It would be awesome to have a simple upload_to_neurovault command line tool that takes a nifti file and a minimal set of metadata.

• Minimal config file stored in the home directory. It could include:
  • user token
  • default collection to upload to
• Users could also specify other collection as an argument, if the given collection does not exist the tool could create it for the user.

This would be really cool!

[burnash]

I like the idea. @ljchang what do you think? Will it fit in your workflow?
@chrisfilo maybe a more general name?

$ neurovault create My collection

id: 1167
name: My collection
...

$ neurovault upload 1167 name='some nifti' map_type='Z' modality='fMRI-BOLD' /path/to/nifti.nii.gz

id: 24369
name: some nifti
image_type: statistic_map
map_type: Z map
modality: fMRI-BOLD
modify_date: 2016-08-03T23:32:55Z
url: http://neurovault.org/images/24369/
file: http://neurovault.org/media/images/1167/motor_lips_1.nii.gz
...

[ljchang]

This sounds like a good plan to me. I'm also planning on adding as a method to nltools.data.Brain_Data().

[chrisgorgo]

I think there are two use cases here:

• people who develop pipelines in Bash and want to add NV upload to their code: they will appreciate flexibility such as creation of collections etc.
• people who just want to manually upload a map from their terminal (for example while being on a cluster): they will appreciate streamlining the process.

[willstrawson]

Hi folks. Did this feature ever get implemented? Just found this issue after doing some googling.