How to download all the genome fasta file for plants?

Question

[mathavanbioinfo]

Hello, I want to download all genome fasta file of plants from NCBI for executing stand alone blast. Please share any command line tools are available.

Thank you Mathavan M

[Andrzej Zielezinski]

You can use: https://github.com/kblin/ncbi-genome-download

Answer 1

[vkkodali_ncbi]

NCBI Datasets is specifically designed for this use-case. You can either use the web interface to pick and choose the data you want or use the command line tool. There is an API too if you are building a application. The link above should have sufficient documentation to get you started.