Using the fsspec gui to browse filesystems

[rsignell]

I see there is an fsspec GUI, and it seems I could use it to traverse filesystems, but I can't figure out the syntax.

For a concrete example, if I wanted to browse the GOES18 public AWS bucket with the GUI, what would I need to do?

from fsspec import gui

fs = fsspec.filesystem('s3', anon=True)
url = 's3://noaa-goes18/'

[martindurant]

This is the right way:

Note that the kwargs must be a string, and this only works from (I think) 2023.10.0. I'll make a change to allow the dict you would expect, and it would make sense to just allow a filesystem instance if you have it.

Also: panel interactivity can be broken easily in jupyterlab ( https://discourse.holoviz.org/t/panel-in-jupyterlab-no-interactivity/3191/16 ) but works well in classic or standalone (e.g., g.show() would start a new tab). If you are already using it with hvplot or otherwise, should be OK.

After navigating, you want to use to following:

• g.open_file() : open the selected file
• g.fs : current filesystem
• g.urlpath : selected path

[rsignell]

Yep! Worked perfectly! Thanks @martindurant !
https://nbviewer.org/gist/rsignell-usgs/4ef752fe878879c46b566bf83bba0398