This repository contains the mast-upload tool for uploading data
sets to MAST, the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes,
along with assorted support code.
It also contains the software for the data ingestion and validation
server that mast-upload interacts with. If you are not administrative
staff at MAST itself, you will probably not have any use for this.
The package is available on PyPi: pip install mast-transfer-tools.
Alternatively, install from source: clone the repo to your computer and run
pip install . from repo root.
Python >= 3.11 is required.
The primary interface is the mast-upload command. Detailed help for it and
its subcommands are available with mast-upload --help and
mast-upload <subcommand> --help.
basic_usage.md includes step-by-step instructions for a standard dataset submission workflow.
Additional documentation, including an API reference, is available at https://fast-upload.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.
You can execute the self-tests by running pytest from repo root
(note that the tests additionally depend on pytest and hypothesis).