Databricks FileStore Uploader

A convenience tool for uploading local directories to the DBFS FileStore

Upload Local Files

This tool uploads specified source directories to specified paths in the DBFS FileStore.

Create a file adjacent to main.py called input.yml, and copy the following:

host : <workspace-url>
token: <user-access-token>

# THIS TOOL CREATES OR OVERWRITES THE TARGET FOLDER!
# Folder paths don't start with './'
# Folder paths don't end with '/'
payloads:
  some-local-folder : some-filestore-folder
  some-other-local-folder : some-other/filestore-folder
  # ...

Replace <user-access-token> with your token in databricks, and replace the example text under payloads: one or more "source : destination" pairs.
These local source directory paths are relative to main.py.

You can then upload all files contained in the local source folders to their specified destinations with:

./main.py

Though make sure you have PyYAML installed.

Verify Uploads

In a databricks notebook, you can verify uploads with:

display(dbutils.fs.ls("/FileStore/some-filestore-folder"))

Please Note❗
This tool CREATES or OVERWRITES it's target dbfs:/FileStore path. Only target folders that are meant to be overwritten, or don't exist.