diff --git a/docs/changes.rst b/docs/changes.rst
index c4436d0..18694a2 100644
--- a/docs/changes.rst
+++ b/docs/changes.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Changelog
 *********
 
+1.9.0
+=====
+* Add `session_token` url param that can be set when creating a `[h]s3://` store
+  via `get_store_from_url`.
+
 1.8.6
 =====
 * We undeprecated ``url2dict`` and ``extract_params`` as these functions turned
diff --git a/minimalkv/net/s3fsstore.py b/minimalkv/net/s3fsstore.py
index 28ff2c3..0519843 100644
--- a/minimalkv/net/s3fsstore.py
+++ b/minimalkv/net/s3fsstore.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import os
 import warnings
-from typing import Dict
+from typing import Dict, NamedTuple, Optional
 
 from uritools import SplitResult
 
@@ -22,10 +22,27 @@
 )
 
 
+class Credentials(NamedTuple):
+    """Dataclass to hold AWS credentials."""
+
+    access_key_id: Optional[str]
+    secret_access_key: Optional[str]
+    session_token: Optional[str]
+
+    def as_boto3_params(self):
+        """Return the credentials as a dictionary suitable for boto3 authentication."""
+        return {
+            "aws_access_key_id": self.access_key_id,
+            "aws_secret_access_key": self.secret_access_key,
+            "aws_session_token": self.session_token,
+        }
+
+
 class S3FSStore(FSSpecStore, UrlMixin):  # noqa D
     def __init__(
         self,
         bucket,
+        credentials: Optional[Credentials] = None,
         object_prefix="",
         url_valid_time=0,
         reduced_redundancy=False,
@@ -37,12 +54,14 @@ def __init__(
         if isinstance(bucket, str):
             import boto3
 
-            s3_resource = boto3.resource("s3")
+            boto3_params = credentials.as_boto3_params() if credentials else {}
+            s3_resource = boto3.resource("s3", **boto3_params)
             bucket = s3_resource.Bucket(bucket)
             if bucket not in s3_resource.buckets.all():
                 raise ValueError("invalid s3 bucket name")
 
         self.bucket = bucket
+        self.credentials = credentials
         self.object_prefix = object_prefix.strip().lstrip("/")
         self.url_valid_time = url_valid_time
         self.reduced_redundancy = reduced_redundancy
@@ -74,6 +93,16 @@ def _create_filesystem(self) -> "S3FileSystem":
             client_kwargs["endpoint_url"] = self.endpoint_url
         if self.region_name:
             client_kwargs["region_name"] = self.region_name
+
+        if self.credentials:
+            return S3FileSystem(
+                key=self.credentials.access_key_id,
+                secret=self.credentials.secret_access_key,
+                token=self.credentials.session_token,
+                anon=False,
+                client_kwargs=client_kwargs,
+            )
+
         return S3FileSystem(
             anon=False,
             client_kwargs=client_kwargs,
@@ -117,10 +146,22 @@ def _from_parsed_url(
 
         ``region_name`` (default: ``None``): If set the AWS region name is applied as location
         constraint during bucket creation.
+
+        ``session_token``(default: ``None``): If set this token will be used in conjunction
+        with access_key_id and secret_access_key for authentication.
+
         **Notes**:
 
         If the scheme is ``hs3``, an ``HS3FSStore`` is returned which allows ``/`` in key names.
 
+        If the credentials are not provided through the url, they are attempted to be
+        loaded from the environment variables `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`,
+        `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`, and `AWS_SESSION_TOKEN`. If these variables are not set,
+        the search for credentials will be delegated to boto(core).
+
+        Positional arguments should be encoded by `urllib.parse.quote_plus`
+        if they contain special characters e.g. "/".
+
         Parameters
         ----------
         parsed_url: SplitResult
@@ -137,6 +178,7 @@ def _from_parsed_url(
 
         url_access_key_id = _get_username(parsed_url)
         url_secret_access_key = _get_password(parsed_url)
+        url_session_token = query.get("session_token", None)
 
         if url_access_key_id is None:
             url_secret_access_key = os.environ.get("AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID")
@@ -148,10 +190,13 @@ def _from_parsed_url(
         else:
             os.environ["AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"] = url_secret_access_key
 
-        boto3_params = {
-            "aws_access_key_id": url_access_key_id,
-            "aws_secret_access_key": url_secret_access_key,
-        }
+        credentials = Credentials(
+            access_key_id=url_access_key_id,
+            secret_access_key=url_secret_access_key,
+            session_token=url_session_token,
+        )
+
+        boto3_params = credentials.as_boto3_params()
         host = parsed_url.gethost()
         port = parsed_url.getport()
 
@@ -198,4 +243,6 @@ def _from_parsed_url(
 
         verify = query.get("verify", "true").lower() == "true"
 
-        return cls(bucket, verify=verify, region_name=region_name)
+        return cls(
+            bucket, credentials=credentials, verify=verify, region_name=region_name
+        )