generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
provider: Cancer.gov
providerId: cancer-gov
source: https://gdc.cancer.gov/access-data/gdc-data-transfer-tool and https://github.com/NCI-GDC/gdc-client
summary:
  cli_count: 1
  note: One first-party CLI, and it belongs to the GDC only. No CLI exists for the Clinical Trials Search
    API, SEER*API, EVS, MoDaC or the webapis.cancer.gov services.
clis:
- name: gdc-client
  display_name: GDC Data Transfer Tool
  official: true
  api: cancer-gov:gdc-api
  language: python
  version: '2.3'
  released: '2024-09-11'
  docs: https://gdc.cancer.gov/access-data/gdc-data-transfer-tool
  repository: https://github.com/NCI-GDC/gdc-client
  install:
  - method: binary
    note: Prebuilt executables for macOS, Windows and Ubuntu are downloaded from https://github.com/NCI-GDC/gdc-client/releases
      — there is no package-manager install; the tool is absent from PyPI and Homebrew.
  - method: source
    note: pip install from a git checkout of https://github.com/NCI-GDC/gdc-client.
  commands:
  - group: download
    note: Retrieve one or more files by GDC UUID, or in bulk from a manifest file exported by the GDC
      Data Portal.
  - group: upload
    note: Submit data files to a GDC project; requires a submission token.
  auth: X-Auth-Token file — the token is downloaded from the GDC Data Portal and passed with -t/--token-file;
    anonymous use is limited to open-access data.
  note: Package binary is tracked in packages/cancer-gov-packages.yml. The 2024-09-11 release date is
    roughly two years behind the API it wraps.