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deno-s3-lite-client

This is a lightweight S3 client for Deno, designed to offer all the key features you may need, with no dependencies outside of the Deno standard library. It does not use any Deno-specific features, so it should work with any modern JavaScript runtime that supports the fetch API and URL imports.

This client is 100% MIT licensed, and is derived from the excellent MinIO JavaScript Client.

Supported functionality:

  • Authenticated or unauthenticated requests
  • List objects: for await (const object of client.listObjects(options)) { ... }
    • Handles pagination transparently
    • Supports filtering using a prefix
    • Supports grouping using a delimiter (use client.listObjectsGrouped(...))
  • Check if an object exists: client.exists("key")
  • Get metadata about an object: client.statObject("key")
  • Download an object: client.getObject("key", options)
    • This just returns a standard HTTP Response object, so for large files, you can opt to consume the data as a stream (use the .body property).
  • Download a partial object: client.getPartialObject("key", options)
    • Like getObject, this also supports streaming the response if you want to.
  • Upload an object: client.putObject("key", streamOrData, options)
    • Can upload from a string, Uint8Array, or ReadableStream
    • Can split large uploads into multiple parts and uploads parts in parallel.
  • Copy an object: client.copyObject({ sourceKey: "source", options }, "dest", options)
    • Can copy between different buckets.
  • Delete an object: client.deleteObject("key")
  • Create pre-signed URLs: client.presignedGetObject("key", options) or client.getPresignedUrl(method, "key", options)
  • Check if a bucket exists: client.bucketExists("bucketName")
  • Create a new bucket: client.makeBucket("bucketName")
  • Remove a bucket: client.removeBucket("bucketName")

Usage examples

List data files from a public data set on Amazon S3:

import { S3Client } from "https://deno.land/x/s3_lite_client@0.7.0/mod.ts";

const s3client = new S3Client({
  endPoint: "s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
  port: 443,
  useSSL: true,
  region: "us-east-1",
  bucket: "openalex",
  pathStyle: false,
});

// Log data about each object found under the 'data/concepts/' prefix:
for await (const obj of s3client.listObjects({ prefix: "data/concepts/" })) {
  console.log(obj);
}
// {
//   type: "Object",
//   key: "data/concepts/updated_date=2024-01-25/part_000.gz",
//   etag: "2c9b2843c8d2e9057656e1af1c2a92ad",
//   size: 44105,
//   lastModified: 2024-01-25T22:57:43.000Z
// },
// ...

// Or, to get all the keys (paths) as an array:
const keys = await Array.fromAsync(s3client.listObjects(), (entry) => entry.key);
// keys = [
//  "data/authors/manifest",
//  "data/authors/updated_date=2023-06-08/part_000.gz",
//  ...
// ]

Uploading and downloading a file using a local MinIO server:

import { S3Client } from "https://deno.land/x/s3_lite_client@0.7.0/mod.ts";

// Connecting to a local MinIO server:
const s3client = new S3Client({
  endPoint: "localhost",
  port: 9000,
  useSSL: false,
  region: "dev-region",
  accessKey: "AKIA_DEV",
  secretKey: "secretkey",
  bucket: "dev-bucket",
  pathStyle: true,
});

// Upload a file:
await s3client.putObject("test.txt", "This is the contents of the file.");

// Now download it
const result = await s3client.getObject("test.txt");
// and stream the results to a local file:
const localOutFile = await Deno.open("test-out.txt", { write: true, createNew: true });
await result.body!.pipeTo(localOutFile.writable);
// or instead of streaming, you can consume the whole file into memory by awaiting
// result.text(), result.blob(), result.arrayBuffer(), or result.json()

For more examples, check out the tests in integration.ts

Developer notes

To run the tests, please use:

deno lint && deno test

To format the code, use:

deno fmt

To run the integration tests, first start MinIO with this command:

docker run --rm -e MINIO_ROOT_USER=AKIA_DEV -e MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=secretkey -e MINIO_REGION_NAME=dev-region -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 --entrypoint /bin/sh minio/minio:RELEASE.2021-10-23T03-28-24Z -c 'mkdir -p /data/dev-bucket && minio server --console-address ":9001" /data'

Then while MinIO is running, run

deno test --allow-net integration.ts

To debug what MinIO is seeing, run these two commands:

mc alias set localdebug http://localhost:9000 AKIA_DEV secretkey
mc admin trace --verbose --all localdebug