How to search an Amazon S3 Bucket using Wildcards?

Question

This stackoverflow answer helped a lot. However, I want to search for all PDFs inside a given bucket.

1. I click "None".
2. Start typing.
3. I type *.pdf
4. Press Enter

Nothing happens. Is there a way to use wildcards or regular expressions to filter bucket search results via the online S3 GUI console?

Answer 1

As stated in a comment, Amazon's UI can only be used to search by prefix as per their own documentation:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/UG/searching-for-objects-by-prefix.html

There are other methods of searching but they require a bit of effort. Just to name two options, AWS-CLI application or Boto3 for Python.

I know this post is old but it is high on Google's list for s3 searching and does not have an accepted answer. The other answer by Harish is linking to a dead site.

UPDATE 2020/03/03: AWS link above has been removed. This is a link to a very similar topic that was as close as I could find. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/ListingKeysHierarchy.html