How to get a list of all the blobs in a container in Azure?
I have the account name and account key of a storage account in Azure. I need to get a list of all the blobs in a container in that account. (The "$logs" container).
I am able to get the information of a specific blob using the CloudBlobClient class but can't figure out how to get a list of all the blobs within the $logs container.
Answer
There is a sample of how to list all of the blobs in a container at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-dotnet-how-to-use-blobs/#list-the-blobs-in-a-container:
// Retrieve the connection string for use with the application. The storage
// connection string is stored in an environment variable on the machine
// running the application called AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING. If the
// environment variable is created after the application is launched in a
// console or with Visual Studio, the shell or application needs to be closed
// and reloaded to take the environment variable into account.
string connectionString = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING");
// Create a BlobServiceClient object which will be used to create a container client
BlobServiceClient blobServiceClient = new BlobServiceClient(connectionString);
// Get the container client object
BlobContainerClient containerClient = blobServiceClient.GetBlobContainerClient("yourContainerName");
// List all blobs in the container
await foreach (BlobItem blobItem in containerClient.GetBlobsAsync())
{
Console.WriteLine("\t" + blobItem.Name);
}