[BUG] Metadata download not only for the provided accession number about pysradb HOT 3 CLOSED

Both these commands work for me. Can you point me to the (incorrect) documentation on where you found --desc --expand being used?

 $ pysradb metadata PRJEB24595 --detailed --saveto PRJEB24595.tsv
 $ cat PRJEB24595.tsv| wc -l
       9
 $ pysradb metadata SRA009436 --detailed --saveto SRA009436.tsv
 $ cat SRA009436.tsv  | wc -l
      33

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Well, I found it in the original publication, where it is mentioned that

We require detailed metadata associated with each sample to perform any downstream analysis. For example, the assays used for different samples and the corresponding treatment conditions. This can be done by supplying the ‘–desc’ flag
$ pysradb metadata SRP010679 –desc | head -5

This can be further expanded to reveal the data in ‘sample_attribute’ column into separate columns via ‘–expand’ flag. This is most useful for samples that have associated treatment or cell type metadata available.
$ pysradb metadata SRP010679 –desc –expand

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Thanks! The publication is now out of date with version 2.0. Docs are available here:https://saket-choudhary.me/pysradb/

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