Source of the website of S3 Explorer, the desktop S3 browser for Windows, macOS and Linux.
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S3 Explorer connects to Amazon S3 and any S3-compatible storage (Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, MinIO, Ceph, Google Cloud Storage, Garage, SeaweedFS and more) from one desktop app, with 25 provider presets and a local index for searching buckets with millions of objects.
- Binaries and issue tracker: AccessDevops/S3Explorer
- Free with every feature and up to 5 connection profiles; a licence removes the limit.
The website, built with Nuxt 4 and Tailwind CSS, deployed on Netlify. Every page is prerendered.
| Path | Content |
|---|---|
app/pages/ |
Home, pricing, news, provider guides, guides |
app/lib/provider-content.ts |
Hand-written connection guide for each documented provider |
content/guides/*.md |
The guides, one Markdown file each |
server/routes/ |
RSS feed of the guides, llms.txt, llms-full.txt |
server/api/ |
Release feed and the licence webhook |
netlify/plugins/indexnow/ |
Notifies Bing of every sitemap URL after a production deploy |
Corrections are welcome, especially on provider settings, prices and comparisons, which change over time.
- Report an error: open an issue with the page and what is wrong, ideally with a link to the provider's documentation.
- Propose a change: edit the guide's file in
content/guides/and open a pull request.
A guide is a Markdown file with a short header. The file name becomes the URL, and the guide is added to the guides index, the sitemap, the RSS feed and llms.txt automatically:
---
title: Under 50 characters, it is followed by "— S3 Explorer"
description: About 150 characters, used as the search snippet.
published: 2026-10-15
updated: 2026-10-15
providers: [aws, minio]
---
**In short:** two or three sentences that answer the question.
## Sections…
## Sources
- Links to the official documentation behind each factproviders lists the provider ids whose connection guide links back to the guide. Facts need a source; outbound links are marked nofollow automatically. Images go in public/images/guides/<slug>/ with their size as title, so the page does not shift while they load: .
Node 20 or later.
npm install
npm run devThe site runs at http://localhost:3000. npm run build produces the production build. Copy .env.example to .env to enable analytics and the licence webhook; the pages work without it.