DEPRECATED and REPLACED - SEP 2017
data tool has replaced dpm

data is our new command line tool

https://datahub.io/docs/features/data-cli

https://github.com/datahq/data-cli

Data Package Manager - in JavaScript

dpm is a library and command line manager for Data Packages.

Starting from v0.8.0 package on NPM has been renamed to dpmjs.

Install

dpm is implemented in node, so to install dpm just do:

npm install dpmjs -g

Command Line Usage

To get an overview and list of commands check out the command line help:

dpm --help

Using DPM programaticaly

You can also use dpm programatically.

var Dpm = require('dpmjs');
var dpm = new Dpm(conf);

dpm.install(['mydpkg@0.0.0', 'mydata@1.0.0'], {cache: true}, function(err, dpkgs){
  //done!
});
dpm.on('log', console.log); //if you like stuff on stdout

Changelog

• v0.8.0: renamed to dpmjs on NPM
• v0.7.0: new ckan command
• v0.6.0: much better validation via v0.2 of datapackage-validate

References

Previous dpm (python-based) can still be found at http://github.com/okfn/dpm-old.