How to get the container id's that I have downloaded from Allen Brain Observatory from the cache

Technical
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Hello:-)

Is there a convenience function for getting all the container id’s and experimental id’s that I’ve downloaded from AllenBrainObservatory from the cache?

Thank you so much for your work!

Best,
Maria

2

Hi Maria,

Thanks for using the Allen Brain Observatory datasets! Unfortunately we don’t have a function for this in our SDK. Please let us know how else we can help!

Thanks,
Ray

3

Thank you for your reply:-)

I kind of solved it-- I can do os.listdir in the cache directory and the file names are the experiment id’s. Does that sound legit to you?

Best,
Maria

4

Yes, that’s how I’d do it. The file names are session ids - so it won’t give you experiment container ids, but it will let you see what sessions you have.

5

Thank you:-) Very useful!