fsspec 2026.2.0

File-system specification

Stars: 1285, Watchers: 1285, Forks: 429, Open Issues: 336

The fsspec/filesystem_spec repo was created 7 years ago and the last code push was 12 hours ago.
The project is very popular with an impressive 1285 github stars!

How to Install fsspec

You can install fsspec using pip

pip install fsspec

or add it to a project with poetry

poetry add fsspec

Package Details

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PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/fsspec/

Documentation:

https://filesystem-spec.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/intake/filesystem_spec

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GitHub Issues

The fsspec package has 336 open issues on GitHub

• Regression in fsspec.parquet.open_parquet_file in fsspec>=2025.12
• Create temp file in target directory to prevent cross-device link error
• ls() method parses incorrectly when a filename contain a whitespace (FTP)
• Copying between different filesystems with unrepresentable directory structure
• Use official action to publish package in CI
• Block Cache requests the data twice for reads greater than 160MB
• Support viewfs schema
• GCSFilesystem creation is surprisingly slow

See more issues on GitHub