A high-level CLI for Slims REST API

Slims-lisp is a small python package that provides a CLI for SLIMS REST API.

Features:

Download a file from a SLIMS experiment attachment step.
Upload a file to a SLIMS experiment attachment step.
Create a new SLIMS experiment attachment step and upload multiple files to it (useful to upload a whole dataset containing multiple data and/or metadata files at once).

Installation

The latest release is available on PyPI and can be installed using pip:

$ pip install slims-lisp

Install and execute slims-lisp in an isolated environment using pipx.

Install pipx and make sure that the $PATH is correctly configured.

$ python3 -m pip install --user pipx
$ pipx ensurepath

Once pipx is installed use following command to install slims-lisp.

$ pipx install slims-lisp
$ which slims-lisp
~/.local/bin/slims-lisp

The latest documentation is available on https://readthedocs.org.