---
name: "intake-server"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python3-intake"
version: "0.6.6-1"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/intake-server"
---

# intake-server(1)

Intake catalog server

## NAME

**intake-server** - Intake catalog server

## SYNOPSIS

**intake-server** \[-h\] \[-p *PORT*\] \[--list-entries\] \[--sys-exit-on-sigterm\] \[--flatten\] \[--no-flatten\] \[--ttl *TTL*\] \[-a *ADDRESS*\] *FILE* \[*FILE* ...\]

## DESCRIPTION

The Intake Catalog Server takes one or more catalog files as input and makes them available on port 5000 by default.

### positional arguments:

- *FILE*

  name of the catalog YAML file.

### optional arguments:

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit.

- **-p** *PORT*, **--port** *PORT*

  *port number for server to listen on.*

- **--list-entries**

  list catalog entries at startup.

- **--sys-exit-on-sigterm**

  internal flag used during unit testing to ensure that the .coverage file is written.

- **--flatten**

  specify that all datasources are merged in a single namespace.

- **--no-flatten**

  make sure each file becomes a sub-catalog.

- **--ttl** *TTL*

  *time-to-live,* *how long before the given entity is considered to have expired,* *usually in seconds.*

- **-a** *ADDRESS*, **--address** *ADDRESS*

  *address to use as a host,* *defaults to the address in the configuration file,* *if provided,* *otherwise* *localhost*.

## AUTHORS

**intake** *and* **intake-server** *are programs written by Anaconda Inc.*

*The present manual page is written by Étienne Mollier \<emollier@debian.org\> for the Debian project,*

## SEE ALSO

*One can find more information about the* **intake-server** *inside* [**intake**(1)](/intake/1.md) *manual page.*