Browse local S3 buckets
without the AWS CLI

Interactive TUI and CLI to explore, search, preview, and download files from Localstack S3 during local cloud development.

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terminal
$ pip install "localstack-s3-explorer[aws]"

Interactive TUI

Localstack S3 Explorer / Buckets ↑↓ navigate Enter open b back d download p preview / search q quit 🪣 dev-data 🪣 ml-models 🪣 logs --- Localstack S3 Explorer /dev-data/raw/ 📁 2026/ 📄 events.parquet 4.2KB 📄 users.json 1.1KB

Commands

s3explorer
Launch interactive TUI browser
s3explorer ls
List buckets or objects
s3explorer get
Download an object to local
s3explorer info
Show object metadata
s3explorer preview
Preview file content (text or hex)
s3explorer search
Search objects by key substring