Blob Explorer turns a public Azure Blob Storage container into a browsable file portal. One Docker container, no account, no credentials — just a URL.
Advanced search
Search runs across the whole container from any folder, matching the full path (folders and file name together), case-insensitively. Five styles:
- smart client
- Plain text: any substring of the path. Spaces are ignored, so
smartclient still matches “Smart Client”.
- *.exe
- Wildcards:
* matches any run of characters, ? a single one. Used when the query contains * or ?, e.g. hotfix?, 20?? R?*/*.exe.
- ^…
- Regex: start the query with
^ and everything after it is a JavaScript regex, e.g. ^XProtect Smart Client/Versions/2026.*\.exe$. The ^ itself is part of the pattern, so it anchors at the start of the path.
- /…
- Also regex, with a leading slash: the first
/ is stripped and the rest is the pattern (write no closing slash), e.g. /\.exe$. If a regex fails to compile, the query falls back to a plain text search.
- ~sofilnt
- Fuzzy: the characters must appear in order, gaps allowed, so
sofilnt finds “some file name.txt”. Best-scoring matches come first; ~~ searches for a literal leading tilde. (Pinned pattern favorites stay regex-based; fuzzy applies to typed and pinned search queries.)
- Pinned views (folders and searches) live in your browser, not the server.
- Self-host it:
docker run -e BASE_URL=… ghcr.io/joshooaj/blobexplorer
Blob Explorer