The official command line tool for interacting with the ISIC Archive.
- Download the latest isic-cli release.
- Extract the executable to a location where it can be invoked from the command line.
If running on macOS, you may need to add the executable to the list of trusted software to launch isic-cli in the same way you would any other registered app.
Note: isic
will be isic.exe
on Windows.
isic image download images/ # downloads the entire archive, images and metadata, to images/
# optionally filter the results
isic image download --search 'diagnosis:"basal cell carcinoma"' images/
isic image download --search 'age_approx:[5 TO 25] AND sex:male' images/
isic metadata download # downloads the entire archive metadata to a csv
# find a collection to filter by
isic collection list # grab the ID for the 2020 Challenge training set (70)
isic metadata download --collections 70