NAME

       git-annex-addurl - add urls to annex

SYNOPSIS

       git annex addurl [url ...]

DESCRIPTION

       Downloads each url to its own file, which is added to the annex.

       When  youtube-dl is installed, it's used to check for a video embedded in a web page at the url, and that
       is added to the annex instead.

       Urls to torrent files (including magnet links) will cause the content of the torrent  to  be  downloaded,
       using aria2c.

       Normally  the  filename is based on the full url, so will look like "www.example.com_dir_subdir_bigfile".
       In some cases, addurl is able to come up with a better filename based on other information.  Options  can
       also be used to get better filenames.

OPTIONS

       --fast

              Avoid  immediately  downloading  the  url.  The  url is still checked (via HEAD) to verify that it
              exists, and to get its size if possible.

       --relaxed
              Don't immediately download the url, and avoid storing the size of the url's  content.  This  makes
              git-annex accept whatever content is there at a future point.

              This  is  the  fastest option, but it still has to access the network to check if the url contains
              embedded media. When adding large numbers of urls, using --relaxed --raw is much faster.

       --raw  Prevent special handling of urls by youtube-dl, bittorrent, and other special remotes.  This  will
              for example, make addurl download the .torrent file and not the contents it points to.

       --file=name
              Use  with  a  filename  that  does not yet exist to add a new file with the specified name and the
              content downloaded from the url.

              If the file already exists, addurl will record that  it  can  be  downloaded  from  the  specified
              url(s).

       --pathdepth=N
              Rather  than  basing the filename on the whole url, this causes a path to be constructed, starting
              at the specified depth within the path of the url.

              For example, adding the url http://www.example.com/dir/subdir/bigfile with --pathdepth=1 will  use
              "dir/subdir/bigfile", while --pathdepth=3 will use "bigfile".

              It can also be negative; --pathdepth=-2 will use the last two parts of the url.

       --prefix=foo --suffix=bar
              Use  to adjust the filenames that are created by addurl. For example, --suffix=.mp3 can be used to
              add an extension to the file.

       --jobs=N -JN
              Enables parallel downloads when multiple urls are being added.  For example: -J4

       --batch
              Enables batch mode, in which lines containing urls to add are read from stdin.

       --with-files
              When batch mode is enabled, makes it parse lines of the form: "$url $file"

              That adds the specified url to the specified file, downloading its content if the  file  does  not
              yet exist; the same as git annex addurl $url --file $file

       --json Enable  JSON  output.  This  is intended to be parsed by programs that use git-annex. Each line of
              output is a JSON object.

       --json-progress
              Include progress objects in JSON output.

       --json-error-messages
              Messages that would normally be output to standard error are included in the json instead.

CAVEATS

       If annex.largefiles is configured, and does not match a file, git annex addurl  will  add  the  non-large
       file  directly  to  the git repository, instead of to the annex. However, this is not done when --fast or
       --relaxed is used.

SEE ALSO

       git-annex(1)

       git-annex-rmurl(1)

       git-annex-registerurl(1)

       git-annex-importfeed(1)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>

                                                                                             git-annex-addurl(1)