din14970 / elabftwcontrol

Library and CLI tool for interacting with eLabFTW data

Elabftwcontrol

Elabftwcontrol is a library and CLI tool for interacting with the popular electronic lab notebook (ELN) software eLabFTW. It works by implementing higher level abstractions on top of the basic api. It is a 3rd party tool not officially supported by eLabFTW maintainers. Elabftwcontrol should not to be confused with elabctl, the official tool for managing an eLabFTW installation.

Things elabftwcontrol aims to facilitate:

• downloading data from experiments and items in various (tabular) formats
• uploading or mutating experiments and items
• managing templates, item categories and other eLabFTW resources declaratively with yaml files (partially implemented)

⚠️ Elabftwcontrol is currently a work in progress and the API may be prone to change at any time

Installation

You can install elabftwcontrol with pip (if you will use it as a library) or pipx (if you will use it via the CLI):

$ pip install elabftwcontrol

or

$ pipx install elabftwcontrol

Usage

CLI

Use the elabftwctl command to interact with eLabFTW. Check out the options via --help.

Python

Documentation and examples are a work in progress, at this moment you will have to look through the code.