---
name: "datalad-crawl-init"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "datalad"
version: "0.4.1-1"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/datalad-crawl-init"
---

# datalad-crawl-init(1)

## SYNOPSIS

 **datalad-crawl-init** \[--version\] \[-h\] \[-l LEVEL\] \[-p {condor}\] \[-t TEMPLATE\]\
                    \[-f TEMPLATE\_FUNC\] \[--save\]\
                    \[args \[args ...\]\]

## DESCRIPTION

Initialize crawling configuration\

Allows to specify template and function to generate a crawling pipeline\

Examples:\

$ datalad crawl-init         --template openfmri         --template-func superdataset\_pipeline\

$ datalad crawl-init         --template fcptable         dataset=Baltimore tarballs=True

## OPTIONS

  args                  keyword arguments to pass into the template function\
                         generating actual pipeline, organized in key=value\
                         pairs. Constraints: value must be a string \[Default:\
                         None\]

  **--version**       show the program's version and license information\
   **-h**, **--help**, **--help-np**\
                         show this help message. --help-np forcefully disables\
                         the use of a pager for displaying the help message\
   **-l** LEVEL, **--log-level** LEVEL\
                         set logging verbosity level. Choose among critical,\
                         error, warning, info, debug. Also you can specify an\
                         integer \<10 to provide even more debugging information\
   **-p** {condor}, **--pbs-runner** {condor}\
                         execute command by scheduling it via available PBS.\
                         For settings, config file will be consulted\
   **-t** *TEMPLATE*, **--template** *TEMPLATE*\
                         the name of the template. Constraints: value must be a\
                         string \[Default: None\]\
   **-f** *TEMPLATE\_FUNC*, **--template-func** *TEMPLATE\_FUNC*\
                         the name of the function. \[Default: None\]\
   **--save**          flag to save file into git repo. \[Default: False\]

## AUTHORS

 datalad is developed by The DataLad Team and Contributors \<team@datalad.org\>.