For the full list of commands, see XNAT REST API Directory along with the Tutorials
List projects (will return only the projects the user has access to)
curl -u username "https://xnat.sydney.edu.au/data/archive/projects"
^data is returned in JSON format by default. Modify format using the format parameter with html, xml, json, csv.
^username is the XNAT logon username, password will be prompt.
List projects (in XML format and save to a file)
curl -u username "https://xnat.sydney.edu.au/data/archive/projects/?format=xml" -o projects.xml
List files for an experiment (in XML format and save to a file)
curl -u username "https://xnat.sydney.edu.au/data/projects/[insert project name here]/subjects/[insert subject name here]/experiments/[insert session name here]/scans/[insert scan ID here]/files?format=xml" -o filelist.xml
Download all DICOM files for a scan (in zip format)
curl -u username "https://xnat.sydney.edu.au/data/projects/[insert project name here]/subjects/[insert subject name here]/experiments/[insert session name here]/scans/[insert scan id here]/files?format=zip" -o dicomfiles.zip
For example, below command downloads to dicomfiles.zip that contains all files for existing scan "3980" of existing session "29", that is for existing subject "MH_Brain" of existing project "fang1".
curl -u xufang "https://dev.xnat.sydney.edu.au/data/projects/fang1/subjects/MH_Brain/experiments/29/scans/3980/files?format=zip" -o dicomfiles.zip
Upload all files into the scan
curl -u username -X PUT "https://xnat.sydney.edu.au/data/projects/[insert project name here]/subjects/[insert subject name here]/experiments/[insert session name here]/scans/[insert scan id here]/resources/[insert a custom folder name here]/files?extract=true" -F “file=@compresses-file.zip”
For example, below command will decompress test.zip and save all DICOM files into "TEST" folder under existing scan "3980" of existing session "29", that is for existing subject "MH_Brain" of existing project "fang1". You can specify the name of folder, if not existed, it'll be created.
curl -u xufang -X PUT "https://dev.xnat.sydney.edu.au/data/projects/fang1/subjects/MH_Brain/experiments/29/scans/3980/resources/TEST/files?extract=true" -F "file=@test.zip"
Create folder
curl -u username -X PUT "https://xnat.sydney.edu.au/data/projects/[insert project name here]/subjects/[insert subject name here]/experiments/[insert session name here]/scans/[insert scan id here]/resources/[insert a custom folder name here]"
For example, below command creates a sub-folder "TEST3" under scan named "3980" of existing session "29", that is for existing subject "MH_Brain" of existing project "fang1". Note that no further sub-directories are allowed.
curl -u xufang -X PUT "https://xnat.sydney.edu.au/data/projects/fang1/subjects/MH_Brain/experiments/29/scans/3980/resources/TEST3"