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The API clients provide a way to use Synapse programmatically. This page shows you how to install a client and login to Synapse programmatically. Packages to interface and access data within Synapse are available for:

• Command Lineline

• Python

• R

To manage stored login credentials, visit the Client Configuration pagesee /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/1985446156.

Command Line

The Synapse command line client is implemented in Python and comes with the Synapse Python package. To install the Synapse command line client, please make sure that you have Python and pip installed. Instruction on Python installation Instruction on pip installationAfter installing pip and python, in have Python and pip installed. For more information, see the Python and pip installation instructions.

After installing Python and pip, open your terminal (Mac OS or GNU/Linux) or Command Prompt (Windows), and run the following command:

pip install synapseclient

synapse login "username" "password"
synapse -h

For more documentation on the command line client, see the synapseclient docssynapseclient docs.

Python

The synapseclient package is available to use Python to access Synapse. See the Python client docs for supported versions of Python.

pip install synapseclient

For complete documentation of the Python client, visit the synapseclient docssynapseclient docs.

R

The synapser package is available for R version versions 3.4 and 3.5.

install.packages("synapser", repos=c("http://ran.synapse.org", "httphttps://crancloud.fhcrcr-project.org"))
install.packages("synapser")

library(synapser)
synLogin("username", "password")

For more documentation on the R client, see synapser R synapser R docs.

To Report an Issue

Report client-specific issues or bugs at the R client or Python (including the command line client) GitHub Issues issues pages. If you have questions on how to use the clients to interact with Synapse, please ask in visit the Synapse Help Forum.

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