# Anything like fsspec for Julia?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anything-like-fsspec-for-julia/57968
**Category:** Data
**Created:** [March 25, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anything-like-fsspec-for-julia/57968 "2021-03-25T19:53:02Z")
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### Author: ![calebwin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/calebwin/32/14432_2.png) [@calebwin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/calebwin)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anything-like-fsspec-for-julia/57968/1 "2021-03-25T19:53:02Z")

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Is there anything like Python’s fsspec for Julia? I want to be able to read from a file but that file might be living locally, on the Internet, or in S3.

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### Author: ![stillyslalom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stillyslalom/32/45687_2.png) [@stillyslalom](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stillyslalom)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anything-like-fsspec-for-julia/57968/2 "2021-03-25T21:01:14Z")

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There’s [FilePathsBase.jl](https://github.com/rofinn/FilePathsBase.jl), which is used as a common interface for things like `S3Path` from [AWSS3.jl](https://github.com/JuliaCloud/AWSS3.jl#s3path).

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### Author: ![calebwin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/calebwin/32/14432_2.png) [@calebwin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/calebwin)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anything-like-fsspec-for-julia/57968/3 "2021-03-25T23:13:23Z")

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@stillyslalom Thanks, that’s a start. But I was thinking about something like an extension of FileIO.jl but supporting input multi-file datasets and with files in remote locations.