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  1. Examples
  2. Data Ingestion

Copy Data from URL to Public Storage

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To upload a file from a URL we will use the bacalhau docker run command.

bacalhau docker run \
    --id-only \
    --wait \
    --input https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filecoin-project/bacalhau/main/README.md \
    ghcr.io/bacalhau-project/examples/upload:v1

The job has been submitted and Bacalhau has printed out the related job id.

Structure of the command

Let's look closely at the command above:

  1. bacalhau docker run: call to bacalhau using docker executor

  2. --input https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filecoin-project/bacalhau/main/README.md: URL path of the input data volumes downloaded from a URL source.

  3. ghcr.io/bacalhau-project/examples/upload:v1: the name and tag of the docker image we are using

The bacalhau docker run command takes advantage of the --input parameter. This will download a file from a public URL and place it in the /inputs directory of the container (by default). Then we will use a helper container to move that data to the /outputs directory.

You can find out more about the which is designed to simplify the data uploading process.

For more details, see the

Checking the State of Your Jobs

Job status: You can check the status of the job using bacalhau job list, processing the json ouput with the jq:

bacalhau job list $JOB_ID --output=json | jq '.[0].Status.JobState.Nodes[] | .Shards."0" | select(.RunOutput)'

When the job status is Published or Completed, that means the job is done, and we can get the results using the job ID.

Job information: You can find out more information about your job by using bacalhau job describe.

bacalhau job describe  $JOB_ID 

Job download: You can download your job results directly by using bacalhau job get. Alternatively, you can choose to create a directory to store your results. In the command below, we removed a directory in case it was present before, created it and downloaded our job output to be stored in that directory.

rm -rf results && mkdir ./results
bacalhau job get --output-dir ./results $JOB_ID 

Each job result contains an outputs subfolder and exitCode, stderr and stdout files with relevant content. To view the execution logs execute following:

head -n 15 ./results/stdout

And to view the job execution result (README.md file in the example case), which was saved as a job output, execute:

tail ./results/outputs/README.md

To get the output CID from a completed job, run the following command:

bacalhau job list $JOB_ID --output=json | jq -r '.[0].Status.JobState.Nodes[] | .Shards."0".PublishedResults | select(.CID) | .CID'

The job will upload the CID to the public storage via IPFS. We will store the CID in an environment variable so that we can reuse it later on.

Now that we have the CID, we can use it in a new job. This time we will use the --input parameter to tell Bacalhau to use the CID we just uploaded.

In this case, the only goal of our job is just to list the contents of the /inputs directory. You can see that the "input" data is located under /inputs/outputs/README.md.

bacalhau docker run \
    --id-only \
    --wait \
    --input ipfs://$CID \
    ubuntu -- \
    bash -c "set -x; ls -l /inputs; ls -l /inputs/outputs; cat /inputs/outputs/README.md"

The job has been submitted and Bacalhau has printed out the related job id. We store that in an environment variable so that we can reuse it later on.

Viewing your Job Output

Get the CID From the Completed Job

Use the CID in a New Bacalhau Job

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