Generating custom Binder instances to bridge exploration and analysis

[manics]

This thread might be useful?

Pass parameters to a notebook on jupyterhub/binderhub

I’ve been brainstorming with a few others on ways to link JupyterHub/BinderHub with a web-based data repository (in this case https://idr.openmicroscopy.org/ though the pattern is useful for other repositories). For example: User finds a dataset or item of interest in the repository That item is associated with one or more recommended notebooks. User clicks a mybinder.org link associated with the item that launches the notebook, configured to run the analysis on the selected item. In the case …

Includes a small Jupyter notebook extension I that can run a notebook that accepts parameters, not quite what you want but might give you some ideas?

Pass parameters to a notebook on jupyterhub/binderhub

Since a similar topic was mentioned on GitHub I though I’d add an update. I packaged the ideas here into an extension: https://github.com/manics/jupyter-notebookparams MyBinder example included

Another extension you could look at is nbgitpuller
https://jupyterhub.github.io/nbgitpuller/
This clones a git repository passed as a query parameter into your jupyter environment at startup.