databrowser 0.39.0

Quick tool to browse and view data files (json,csv,parquet,more) on local disk and s3

databrowser

A easy file browser to view data files.

Currently supports parquet,json and csv with the Pandas library

Based on the example code_browser from Textual.

install

The package is published on pypi https://pypi.org/project/databrowser/

run pip install databrowser (pip install databrowser --upgrade to get latest version)

Then just execute databrowser

Build

This project uses uv (Python >= 3.13).

Execute uv sync to create the virtual env and install the package and its dependencies.

Run uv run databrowser to execute in the virtual env (or uv run python src/databrowser/data_browser.py).

Usage

python3 data_browser.py [optional path]

S3 Support

with the help of S3Path and S3fs the browser now supports s3.

use databrowser s3:// to start browsing buckets

or databrowser s3://bucket/path/subdir/ to browse a specific directory.

it uses the default aws credentials in the environment

Select a data file to view

• press F to hide the filebrowser

• press D to show the dtypes

• press S to save a screenshot in svg

• press Q to quit

examples