Installation

You can follow this documentation to install the Seafile CLI client on various Linux distributions.

Basic Usage

Initialise & start the client

# choose a folder where to store the seafile client settings e.g ~/seafile-client
mkdir ~/seafile-client            # create the settings folder
seaf-cli init -d ~/seafile-client  # initialise seafile client with this folder
seaf-cli start

Download a library from a server

retrieve the library id by browsing on the server -> it's in the url after /repo/
then

seaf-cli download -l "the id of the library" -s  "the url + port of server" -d "the folder where the library folder will be downloaded" -u "username on server" [-p "password"]
seaf-cli status  # check status of ongoing downloads
# Name  Status  Progress
# Apps    downloading     9984/10367, 9216.1KB/s

Note: if you not supply the password parameter in the command, it will be asked later, which is more safe.

Example: seaf-cli download -l 0536c006-8a43-449e-8718-39f12111620d -s http://cloud.seafile.com -d /tmp -u freeplant@test.com

Download a library from a server and sync with an existing folder.

# This is the same as download : replace download by sync 
seaf-cli sync -l "the id of the library" -s  "the url + port of server" -d "the folder where the library will be synced with" -u "username on server" -p "password"

Main documentation

seaf-cli is command line interface for seafile client.

Subcommands:

    init                Initialize config directory
    start               Start ccnet and seafile daemon
    stop                Stop ccnet and seafile daemon
    list                List local libraries
    list-remote         List remote libraries
    status              Show syncing status
    download            Download a library from seafile server
    download-by-name    Download a library defined by name from seafile server
    sync                Sync a library with an existing foler
    desync              Desync a library with seafile server
    create              Create a library
    config              Configure seafile client

Detail

Seafile client stores all its configure information in a config dir. The default location is ~/.ccnet. All the commands below accept an option -c <config-dir>.

init

Initialize seafile client. This command initializes the config dir. It also creates sub-directories seafile-data and seafile under parent-dir. seafile-data is used to store internal data, while seafile is used as the default location put downloaded libraries.

seaf-cli init [-c <config-dir>] -d <parent-dir>

A file named seafile.ini will be created under ~/.ccnet to record the location of seafile-datadirectory.

If you want to run multiple instances of Seafile cli client in the same machine, you can specify different config-dir and parent-dir when initializing different client instances. Then the instances can run without interfering each others. When starting the instances, just specify ccnet config directories with the -c option.

start

Start seafile client. This command start ccnet and seaf-daemon, ccnet is the network part of seafile client, seaf-daemon manages the files.

seaf-cli start [-c <config-dir>]

stop

Stop seafile client.

seaf-cli stop [-c <config-dir>]

Download

Download a library from seafile server

seaf-cli download -l <library-id> -s <seahub-server-url> -d <parent-directory> -u <username> [-p <password>]

sync

Synchronize a library with an existing folder.

seaf-cli sync -l <library-id> -s <seahub-server-url> -d <existing-folder> -u <username> [-p <password>]

desync

Desynchronize a library from seafile server

seaf-cli desync -d <existing-folder>

create

Create a new library on server

seaf-cli create [-h] -n library-name -t description [-e library-password] -s server -u username -p password

Skip SSL certificate verify

If you're using self-signed certificate on the server, you should ask the client to skip verifying certificate.

seaf-cli config -k disable_verify_certificate -v true

Set Transfer Speed Limit

Set upload speed limit to 1MB/s :

seaf-cli config -k upload_limit -v 1000000

Set download speed limit to 1MB/s :

seaf-cli config -k download_limit -v 1000000

Two factor authentication

Now, the seaf-cli has suported 'Two Factor Authentication'. If you want to use the feature, you should add the argument --tfa <token> to any seaf-cli commands. The <token> is Google Authenticator's verification code.

For example:

seaf-cli download -l "4b11d9d4-e3b1-4394-be85-9d4a80f626fa" -s "https://demo.seafile.top" -d "testst" -u "abc@abc.com"

Source: Seafile Help