Unipept-cli offers a command line interface to the Unipept web service. Documentation about the web service can be found at http://unipept.ugent.be/apidocs.
To use the Unipept CLI, Ruby version 1.9.3 or higher needs to be installed. You can check this by running ruby -v on the commandline:
$ ruby -v
ruby 2.1.1p76 (2014-02-24 revision 45161) [x86_64-darwin12.0]
More information on installing Ruby can be found at https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/installation/
The Unipept CLI is available as a gem. This means it can easily be installed with the following command:
$ gem install unipept
Successfully installed unipept-0.8.0
Parsing documentation for unipept-0.8.0
Done installing documentation for unipept after 0 seconds
1 gem installedAfter successful installation, the unipept command should be available:
$ unipept -v
0.8.0The help can be accessed by running unipept -h.