S3 Browser

A small, interactive tool to browse s3 like a regular directory structure

Written in python.

Features

• Autocompletion and command history, powered by prompt toolkit
• Familiar interface for unix users (cd, ls, file, pwd, etc.)
• Bookmarking (bookmark add, bookmark ls...)
• Inspect key metadata (file) or contents (cat)
• Download or upload individual keys to/from local files (put or get)
• Lazy-loading and caching of paths (no scanning entire buckets on start up)

Installation

pip install s3_browser

And then run with s3-browser.

Example usage

Development

You'll need uv and ruff to work with this project.

Running tests

This project uses make for ease of use. You can run tests by simply running:

make test

Use make to run the full build, including tests with pytest and formatting and linting with ruff.

Testing against minio

You can test against minio by running make bootstrap to start a minio container and create a test bucket. You can then connect to it with:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=minio
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=minio123
uv run s3-browser --endpoint http://localhost:19000

Releasing

Bump the version in pyproject.toml and push the corresponding tag, then release via github. This will run the publish workflow.