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Jupyter Storage Explorer

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StorageExplorer is a file explorer for cloud storage and data lakes, right inside your Jupyter notebook, in the spirit of Azure Storage Explorer.

Browse Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake / Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, local disks and more; preview Parquet files, Delta Lake tables, CSV, Excel, JSON and other formats; page through, sort and filter tables; get ready-to-run code that loads the data into your notebook; and upload, download, move and edit files without leaving JupyterLab.

StorageExplorer with a JSON Lines file open in the data browser

This package also provides the DataExplorer widget, which lets you browse tabular data in your notebook: any dataframe of pandas, polars, Spark, DuckDB and more. Page through, sort and filter it in the widget, then get the result back in code.

DataExplorer showing a Delta Lake table in a notebook

Highlights

  • StorageExplorer: any fsspec storage, several in one explorer; copy and paste between storages and notebooks.
  • DataExplorer: page, sort and filter any dataframe; get the result back in code.
  • Previews of Delta Lake, Parquet, CSV, JSON, Excel, text and images, with code to load them.
  • Background file operations with progress and Cancel; folder operations only in Unsafe mode.
  • Bookmarks, remembered queries, transfer rules, and a JupyterLab launcher item.

Installation

pip install jupyter-storage-explorer

Install the package for your storage too:

Storage Package Address
Amazon S3 s3fs s3://bucket/path
Azure Data Lake / Blob Storage adlfs abfs://container@account.dfs.core.windows.net/path
Google Cloud Storage gcsfs gs://bucket/path
Local disk, in-memory (included) /path, memory://

Previewing and querying data files needs a data library, e.g. pip install polars deltalake; the preview tells you which.

Quick start

From the JupyterLab launcher

jupyter-storage-explorer-launcher adds Storage Explorer to JupyterLab's launcher, opening the explorer in its own tab:

pip install jupyter-storage-explorer-launcher

The Storage Explorer item in JupyterLab's launcher

From Python code

from jupyter_storage_explorer import StorageExplorer

StorageExplorer("s3://my-bucket/data")

Options after the address go to the storage package, e.g. profile="analytics". Double-click a file to preview it; right-click for everything else.

Browse a dataframe and get the rows you filtered back:

import polars as pl
from jupyter_storage_explorer import DataExplorer

explorer = DataExplorer(pl.scan_parquet("s3://my-bucket/lake/sales/*.parquet"))
explorer
explorer.result().collect()  # after filtering and sorting in the widget

The notebooks folder has a demo of each widget on sample data.

Documentation

  • StorageExplorer: storages, using the explorer, transfer policy, formats and options.
  • DataExplorer: the data browser, result(), on_change(), QuerySettings and options.
  • The launcher: configuring its tab with launcher.py files.
  • Development: building, releasing, and custom icons.

Requirements

  • Python 3.11 or later
  • JupyterLab 4 (other Jupyter frontends show the widgets, without drag and drop from JupyterLab's file browser)
  • For querying data: polars (tested with 2.0)

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