Jupyter Storage Explorer launcher
Adds Storage Explorer to JupyterLab's launcher (section Other) and command palette. It opens Jupyter Storage Explorer in its own tab, on the folder JupyterLab's file browser shows.
It also adds a side panel, a narrow explorer next to your notebooks:
- Open it with the Storage Explorer icon in the left side bar.
- The same storages as the tab; a folder's list, without the tree or the preview panel.
- Files you view (View, a double-click) open in new tabs.
- The filter button, left of ⚙, shows the filter.
It also integrates every Storage Explorer, in its tab or in a notebook, with JupyterLab:
- Drag and drop: drag files onto JupyterLab's file browser to download them there.
- Open files in a tab: double-click a file to open it in JupyterLab's own editor or viewer; Save writes it back to the storage.
- View in a new tab: open a table in the data browser, or another view (text, an image, ...), in a tab of its own.
Installation
pip install "jupyter-storage-explorer-launcher[polars]"
The launcher has the same extras as jupyter-storage-explorer
(Installation), of two kinds:
- Full extras, e.g.
[polars]: the plugin and the libraries it uses. - Support-only extras, e.g.
[polars-support]: the plugin alone, using the libraries already installed. Nothing else is installed or upgraded.
| Full extra | Support-only extra | Plugin |
|---|---|---|
polars |
polars-support |
Polars: Delta Lake, Parquet, CSV, JSON Lines, Excel |
pandas |
pandas-support |
pandas: Parquet, CSV, JSON Lines, Excel |
pyspark |
pyspark-support |
PySpark or Databricks Connect: Delta Lake, Parquet, CSV, JSON Lines |
abfs |
abfs-support |
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 |
all |
all-supports |
All of the above |
Full extras are handy for a quick try. Support-only extras are highly recommended for an IPython kernel whose data access packages are carefully installed and configured (e.g. a shared JupyterHub image): the plugins use what is there and never change it.
pip install "jupyter-storage-explorer-launcher[all-supports]" # every plugin, with the libraries you have
Install it in the environment of JupyterLab and of the default kernel (on JupyterHub, usually the single-user image), then restart JupyterLab. Requires JupyterLab 4.0 or later.
Or from JupyterLab itself, without a terminal: run this in a notebook, then reload the page (no restart needed):
%pip install "jupyter-storage-explorer-launcher[polars]"
This works when the notebook's kernel runs in JupyterLab's own environment, as the default kernel usually does.
Then see Using the explorer.
Configuration
Click the ⚙ button at the right of the tab's toolbar, then Edit configuration.
It opens your settings, a Python file (launcher.py), in JupyterLab's editor; if you have none, it offers to create
one from a template with an example of each setting.
Uncomment and edit the settings you need, then save. Reload the web browser, then open the explorer tab again to apply the changes.
For example, to open each tab on the data lake and the folder it starts on, with a preview at once:
def filesystems():
return {
"Here": ".", # the folder the tab opens on
"Data lake": "abfs://lake@myaccount.dfs.core.windows.net",
}
def parameters():
return {"preview_panel": "open"}
The file has some of these functions, all optional:
| Function | Returns |
|---|---|
filesystems() |
{name: URL or fsspec filesystem} |
plugin_options() |
The plugins' options, by key, e.g. {"pandas-support": {"enabled": False}} (Plugins) |
format_options() |
The libraries' options, by library and format (Format options) |
transfer_policy() |
Rules of a transfer policy |
parameters() |
Other StorageExplorer arguments (StorageExplorer options), e.g. {"engine_preference": ["pandas"]} |
The side panel uses the same settings, except its own layout: height, tree_view, preview_panel and layout are
not taken from parameters() there.
For extending the explorer in Python
(Developing plugins),
tried before the defaults: supports() (FormatSupport: formats and the libraries handling them), operations()
(FileSystemOperations) and filesystem_mappers() (FileSystemMapper).
Other configuration files
Your files are in Jupyter's configuration directory, which jupyter --config-dir prints: ~/.jupyter by default (on
Windows, %USERPROFILE%\.jupyter), or $JUPYTER_CONFIG_DIR where that is set. launcher.py is in its
storage-explorer folder.
Icons
To change the explorer's icons, use JupyterLab's custom.css (see
Icons), which applies to the
launcher's tabs and to explorers in notebooks alike.
Bookmarks and query settings
The tabs share bookmarks and the data browser's query settings in storage-explorer/states.json in the same
directory, unless parameters() sets states (another file's path, or None: in each tab's memory).
Layers of the configuration file
Administrators can set up the tab for everyone: a storage-explorer/launcher.py in any of Jupyter's configuration
directories (jupyter --paths, config section) is read, e.g. /etc/jupyter/storage-explorer/launcher.py for the
whole system or <environment>/etc/jupyter/storage-explorer/launcher.py for one Python environment (e.g. a
JupyterHub image). Each file is a layer, applied from the system's to the user's, so users' files usually come last.
A later layer changes an earlier one's settings this way:
| Function | Merged with earlier layers |
|---|---|
filesystems() |
By name: added or replaced; None removes one |
plugin_options() |
By plugin, then option |
parameters() |
By name |
format_options() |
By library, format, then option |
supports(), operations(), filesystem_mappers() |
Later layers' first, all before the defaults |
transfer_policy() |
Later layers' rules first, so they decide first |
final() returns the settings later layers cannot change: function names (except parameters) and parameter names.
For example, /etc/jupyter/storage-explorer/launcher.py:
def filesystems():
return {
"Here": ".",
"Data lake": "abfs://lake@myaccount.dfs.core.windows.net",
}
def transfer_policy():
# No downloads from the lake to users' computers or to the Jupyter server.
return [
{"rule": "deny", "src": r"abfs://lake@.*", "dest": "browser:///.*"},
{"rule": "deny", "src": r"abfs://lake@.*", "dest": "jupyterlab://.*"},
]
def final():
return ["filesystems", "transfer_policy"] # users cannot change these
Final settings are not a security boundary: users can still create explorers in notebooks.
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