AzureSAS

Create shared access signatures (SAS) URLs for containers, files, folders in your Azure storage account.

Note that each file in a container/folder has to be downloaded separately, so if there are 1000 files in the container, 1000 SAS URLs will be provided

Choose either the container, file, or folder functionality

General usage

usage: AzureSAS [-h] {container,file,folder} ...

Create shared access signatures (SAS) for containers/files/folders from Azure storage.
Note that each file in the container/folder has to be downloaded separately, so if
there are 1000 files in the container, 1000 SAS will be provided

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Available functionality:
  {container,file,folder}
    container           Create SAS for all files in a container in Azure storage
    file                Create a SAS for a file in Azure storage
    folder              Create SAS for all files in a folder in Azure storage

AzureSAS container

Create SAS URLs for all files in a container in your Azure storage account

Required arguments:

  • container name
  • account name

Optional arguments:

  • output file: file in which the SAS URLs are to be written. Default is sas.txt in your current working directory
  • expiry: the number of days the SAS URL with be valid. Minimum is 1, maximum is 365. Default is 10
  • verbosity: set the logging level. Options are debug,info,warning,error,critical. Default is info

Example commands:

These commands will use container-name as the name of the container, and account_name as the name of the storage account

To create SAS URLs with default settings:

AzureSAS container -a account_name -c container-name

To create SAS URLs with an expiry of 15 days:

AzureSAS container -a account_name -c container-name -e 15

To create SAS URLs, and save them to the file sas_urls.txt in your current working directory:

AzureSAS container -a account_name -c container-name -o sas_urls.txt

To create SAS URLs, and save them to the file sas_urls.txt nested in folder outputs in your current working directory:

AzureSAS container -a account_name -c container-name -o outputs/sas_urls.txt

Usage

usage: AzureSAS container [-h] -c CONTAINER_NAME -a ACCOUNT_NAME [-v VERBOSITY] [-e EXPIRY] [-o OUTPUT_FILE]

Create SAS URLs for all files in a container in Azure storage

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CONTAINER_NAME, --container_name CONTAINER_NAME
                        Name of the Azure storage container. Note that container names must be lowercase, between 3 and 63 characters, start with a letter or number, and can contain only letters, numbers, and the dash (-) character. Consecutive dashes are not permitted.
  -a ACCOUNT_NAME, --account_name ACCOUNT_NAME
                        Name of the Azure storage account
  -v VERBOSITY, --verbosity VERBOSITY
                        Set the logging level. Options are debug, info, warning, error, and critical. Default is info.
  -e EXPIRY, --expiry EXPIRY
                        The number of days that the SAS URL will be valid. The minimum is 1, and the maximum is 365. The default is 10.
  -o OUTPUT_FILE, --output_file OUTPUT_FILE
                        Name and path of file in which the SAS URLs are to be saved. Default is $CWD/sas.txt

AzureSAS file

Create a SAS URL for a file in a container in your Azure storage account

Required arguments:

  • container name
  • account name
  • file name

Optional arguments:

  • output file: file in which the SAS URLs are to be written. Default is sas.txt in your current working directory
  • expiry: the number of days the SAS URL with be valid. Minimum is 1, maximum is 365. Default is 10
  • verbosity: set the logging level. Options are debug,info,warning,error,critical. Default is info

Example commands:

These commands will use container-name as the name of the container, and account_name as the name of the storage account

To create a SAS URL for file file_name.gz with default settings:

AzureSAS file -a account_name -c container-name -f file_name.gz

To create a SAS URL for file file_name.gz nested in folder outputs with default settings:

AzureSAS file -a account_name -c container-name -f outputs/file_name.gz

To create a SAS URL for file file_name.gz with an expiry of 15 days:

AzureSAS file -a account_name -c container-name f file_name.gz -e 15

To create a SAS URL for file file_name.gz, and save it to the file sas_urls.txt in your current working directory:

AzureSAS file -a account_name -c container-name -f file_name.gz -o sas_urls.txt

To create a SAS URL for file file_name.gz, and save it to the file sas_urls.txt nested in folder outputs in your current working directory:

AzureSAS file -a account_name -c container-name -f file_name.gz -o outputs/sas_urls.txt

Usage

usage: AzureSAS file [-h] -c CONTAINER_NAME -a ACCOUNT_NAME [-v VERBOSITY] [-e EXPIRY] [-o OUTPUT_FILE] -f FILE

Create a SAS URL for a file in Azure storage

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CONTAINER_NAME, --container_name CONTAINER_NAME
                        Name of the Azure storage container. Note that container names must be lowercase, between 3 and 63 characters, start with a letter or number, and can contain only letters, numbers, and the dash (-) character. Consecutive dashes are not permitted.
  -a ACCOUNT_NAME, --account_name ACCOUNT_NAME
                        Name of the Azure storage account
  -v VERBOSITY, --verbosity VERBOSITY
                        Set the logging level. Options are debug, info, warning, error, and critical. Default is info.
  -e EXPIRY, --expiry EXPIRY
                        The number of days that the SAS URL will be valid. The minimum is 1, and the maximum is 365. The default is 10.
  -o OUTPUT_FILE, --output_file OUTPUT_FILE
                        Name and path of file in which the SAS URLs are to be saved. Default is $CWD/sas.txt
  -f FILE, --file FILE  Path of file in Azure storage from which a SAS URL is to be created. e.g. 2022-SEQ-0001_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz

AzureSAS folder

Create SAS URLs for all files in a folder in your Azure storage account

Required arguments:

  • container name
  • account name
  • folder name

Optional arguments:

  • output file: file in which the SAS URLs are to be written. Default is sas.txt in your current working directory
  • expiry: the number of days the SAS URL with be valid. Minimum is 1, maximum is 365. Default is 10
  • verbosity: set the logging level. Options are debug,info,warning,error,critical. Default is info

Example commands:

These commands will use container-name as the name of the container, and account_name as the name of the storage account

To create SAS URLs for all files in folder folder_name with default settings:

AzureSAS folder -a account_name -c container-name -f folder_name

To create SAS URLs for all files in folder folder_name nested in folder outputs with default settings:

AzureSAS folder -a account_name -c container-name -f outputs/folder_name

To create SAS URLs for all files in folder folder_name with an expiry of 15 days:

AzureSAS folder -a account_name -c container-name f folder_name -e 15

To create SAS URLs for all files in folder folder_name, and save them to the file sas_urls.txt in your current working directory:

AzureSAS folder -a account_name -c container-name -f folder_name -o sas_urls.txt

To create SAS URLs for all files in folder folder_name, and save them to the file sas_urls.txt nested in folder outputs in your current working directory:

AzureSAS folder -a account_name -c container-name -f folder_name -o outputs/sas_urls.txt

Usage

usage: AzureSAS folder [-h] -c CONTAINER_NAME -a ACCOUNT_NAME [-v VERBOSITY] [-e EXPIRY] [-o OUTPUT_FILE] -f FOLDER

Create SAS URLs for all files in a folder in Azure storage

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CONTAINER_NAME, --container_name CONTAINER_NAME
                        Name of the Azure storage container. Note that container names must be lowercase, between 3 and 63 characters, start with a letter or number, and can contain only letters, numbers, and the dash (-) character. Consecutive dashes are not permitted.
  -a ACCOUNT_NAME, --account_name ACCOUNT_NAME
                        Name of the Azure storage account
  -v VERBOSITY, --verbosity VERBOSITY
                        Set the logging level. Options are debug, info, warning, error, and critical. Default is info.
  -e EXPIRY, --expiry EXPIRY
                        The number of days that the SAS URL will be valid. The minimum is 1, and the maximum is 365. The default is 10.
  -o OUTPUT_FILE, --output_file OUTPUT_FILE
                        Name and path of file in which the SAS URLs are to be saved. Default is $CWD/sas.txt
  -f FOLDER, --folder FOLDER
                        Name of the folder for which SAS URLs are to be created for all files. e.g. InterOp