cxg¶
A command-line tool for browsing and downloading public single-cell datasets from the CELLxGene Discover portal without leaving the terminal.
cxg wraps the public dataset-level REST API, complementing the official cellxgene-census SDK (which queries cells, not datasets).
Installation¶
Requires Python 3.11+.
Install from source with uv:
git clone https://github.com/aaronwolen/cellxgene-discover-cli.git
cd cellxgene-discover-cli
uv sync
How it works¶
All datasets are fetched in a single API call and cached locally as JSON. Filtering is done entirely client-side against this cache, which makes repeated queries fast and avoids unnecessary API calls.