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.

Installation

Install the development version from GitHub as follows:

remotes::install_github("datawookie/filebin")

Basic Usage

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"))

API Endpoints

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