
S3 Explore
- 350 installs
- 527 repo stars
- Updated April 23, 2026
- duckdb/duckdb-skills
Explores and queries data on S3, R2, GCS, MinIO or any S3-compatible storage - listing files and previewing Parquet/CSV/JSON without downloading.
About
s3-explore uses DuckDB to explore and query data on S3, Cloudflare R2, GCS, MinIO or any S3-compatible storage - listing files and previewing remote Parquet, CSV or JSON, and reporting size, schema and row counts without downloading. A solo builder reaches for it to poke around a cloud bucket and query remote datasets directly from the terminal.
- Query S3, R2, GCS, MinIO storage
- List remote files and buckets
- Preview Parquet/CSV/JSON in place
- No download required
S3 Explore by the numbers
- 350 all-time installs (skills.sh)
- Ranked #157 of 911 Databases skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
- Data as of Aug 3, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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| Installs | 350 |
|---|---|
| repo stars | ★ 527 |
| Last updated | April 23, 2026 |
| Repository | duckdb/duckdb-skills ↗ |
What it does
Explores and queries data on S3, R2, GCS, MinIO or any S3-compatible storage - listing files and previewing Parquet/CSV/JSON without downloading.
Who is it for?
querying remote data in object storage
Skip if: local-only workflows