Filebin allows you to quickly & easily share files. Development of the software behind Filebin happens here:
- https://github.com/espebra/filebin2 (current) and
- https://github.com/espebra/filebin (deprecated).
This is an R wrapper for the Filebin API.
The documentation for {filebin}
can be found
here.
Install the development version from GitHub as follows:
remotes::install_github("datawookie/filebin")
Load the package and check the versions.
library(filebin)
packageVersion("filebin")
[1] '0.0.6'
Upload a file to randomly named bin on Filebin.
DESCRIPTION_PATH <- system.file("DESCRIPTION", package = "filebin")
description <- file_post(DESCRIPTION_PATH)
Take a look at the result.
description %>% select(filename, bin)
Download a file using an URL.
file_get(description$url, file = "description.txt")
Download a file using filename and bin.
file_get(
description$filename,
description$bin,
file = "description.txt",
overwrite = TRUE
)
Compare to original document.
md5sum(c(DESCRIPTION_PATH, "description.txt"))
File endpoints:
-
GET /{bin}/{filename}
-
DELETE /{bin}/{filename}
-
POST /{bin}/{filename}
Bin endpoints:
-
GET /{bin}
-
PUT /{bin}
-
DELETE /{bin}
-
GET /qr/{bin}
-
GET /archive/{bin}/tar
-
GET /archive/{bin}/zip