Method to access query string in Voila notebook

[fomightez]

I don’t have specifics or what is the best current way to pass variables via the URI but I did come across these:

Specify (some) voila options through URL parameters

Pass parameters to a notebook on jupyterhub/binderhub

There is a bunch of thoughts on a related but different topic in https://github.com/jupyterhub/binderhub/issues/712 which also has a lot of links/issues referring to it. If I understand you correctly you want to add parameters for the notebook, not the spawner (or BinderHub itself). This is what makes it a bit different from the issue I linked. There are (at least?) two things to solve: recognise that the query parameters aren’t meant for the spawner and pass them on use a notebook to extrac…