Is it possible for emacs to load a buffer from a Amazon S3 bucket?

Question

Is it possible for emacs to load a buffer from a Amazon S3 bucket? If so has somebody already built something that can do this?

Answer 1

Have you tried using curl?

In which case, you could do something like (untested):

(defun grab-s3-bucket (url)
  (interactive "sURL for Amazon s3 bucket: ")
  (shell-command (format "curl -O %s" url) (get-buffer-create url)))

M-x grab-s3-bucket URL

You could write the results back with something like:

(defun write-s3-bucket (url)
  (interactive "sURL for Amazon s3 bucket: ")
  (shell-command-on-region (format "curl %s -T " url)))

You could even get tricky and bind C-x C-s to the write-s3-bucket, using a buffer local variable to store the URL for the s3 bucket (that would get created upon the call to grab-s3-bucket).