NAME

       datalad extract-metadata - run one or more of DataLad's metadata extractors on a dataset or file.

SYNOPSIS

       datalad extract-metadata [-h] --type NAME [-d DATASET] [--version] [FILE ...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  result(s)  are structured like the metadata DataLad would extract during metadata aggregation. There
       is one result per dataset/file.

       Examples:

       Extract metadata with two extractors from a dataset in the  current  directory  and  also  from  all  its
       files::

         $ datalad extract-metadata -d . --type frictionless_datapackage --type datalad_core

       Extract XMP metadata from a single PDF that is not part of any dataset::

         $ datalad extract-metadata --type xmp Downloads/freshfromtheweb.pdf

OPTIONS

       FILE   Path of a file to extract metadata from. Constraints: value must be a string

       -h, --help, --help-np
              show  this  help message. --help-np forcefully disables the use of a pager for displaying the help
              message

       --type NAME
              Name of a metadata extractor to be executed. This option can be given more than once.

       -d DATASET, --dataset DATASET
              "Dataset to extract metadata from. If no FILE is given, metadata is extracted from  all  files  of
              the dataset. Constraints: Value must be a Dataset or a valid identifier of a Dataset (e.g. a path)

       --version
              show the module and its version which provides the command

AUTHORS

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

datalad extract-metadata 0.15.5                    2022-02-10                        datalad extract-metadata(1)