Read file content from S3 bucket with boto3

Question

I read the filenames in my S3 bucket by doing

objs = boto3.client.list_objects(Bucket='my_bucket')
    while 'Contents' in objs.keys():
        objs_contents = objs['Contents']
        for i in range(len(objs_contents)):
            filename = objs_contents[i]['Key']

Now, I need to get the actual content of the file, similarly to a open(filename).readlines(). What is the best way?

Answer 1

boto3 offers a resource model that makes tasks like iterating through objects easier. Unfortunately, StreamingBody doesn't provide readline or readlines.

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
bucket = s3.Bucket('test-bucket')
# Iterates through all the objects, doing the pagination for you. Each obj
# is an ObjectSummary, so it doesn't contain the body. You'll need to call
# get to get the whole body.
for obj in bucket.objects.all():
    key = obj.key
    body = obj.get()['Body'].read()