ifcb_list_dashboard_bins: Download bin list from the IFCB Dashboard API

In iRfcb: Tools for Managing Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) Data

Download bin list from the IFCB Dashboard API

Description

The api/list_bins endpoint was removed from the upstream IFCB Dashboard (WHOIGit/ifcbdb@8c5839f1, 2026-03-08), so this function no longer works against the WHOI dashboard and other deployments tracking upstream. Use ifcb_download_dashboard_metadata() instead, which retrieves the same per-bin information from the still-supported api/export_metadata endpoint.

Usage

ifcb_list_dashboard_bins(base_url, dataset_name = NULL, quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

base_url	Character. Base URL to the IFCB Dashboard (e.g. "https://ifcb-data.whoi.edu/").
dataset_name	Optional character. Dataset slug (e.g. "mvco") to retrieve metadata for a specific dataset. If NULL, all available metadata are downloaded.
quiet	Logical. If TRUE, suppresses progress messages. Default is FALSE.

Value

A data frame containing the bin list returned by the API.

See Also

ifcb_download_dashboard_data() to download data from the IFCB Dashboard API.

ifcb_download_dashboard_metadata() to retrieve metadata from the IFCB Dashboard API.

Examples

## Not run: 
  # Deprecated: the upstream IFCB Dashboard removed `api/list_bins` on 2026-03-08.
  bins <- ifcb_list_dashboard_bins("https://ifcb-data.whoi.edu/",
                                   dataset_name = "mvco")
  head(bins)

## End(Not run)

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