osfclient

This tutorial was created by Steffen Bollmannn.

Github: @stebo85

The osfclient is an open-source tool to publish and access open datasets on the Open Science Framework (OSF): http://osf.io/

Setup an OSF token

You can generate an OSF token under your user settings. Then, set the OSF token as an environment variable:

export OSF_TOKEN=YOURTOKEN

Publish a dataset

Here is an example how to publish a dataset on the OSF:

osf init
# enter your OSF credentials and project ID

# now copy your data into the directory, cd into the directory and then run:
osf upload -r . osfstorage/data

Note for those who have used ORCID to create their account / log in

You can still use OSF to upload, but you need to use the TOKEN as the username in osf init (from testing, you don’t need to export the OSF_TOKEN variable). It won’t ask you for a password.

Access a dataset

To download a dataset from the OSF:

osf -p PROJECTID_HERE_eg_y5cq9 clone .