Reading an JSON file from S3 using Python boto3

Question

I kept following JSON in S3 bucket 'test'

{
  'Details' : "Something" 
}

I am using following code to read this JSON and printing the key 'Details'

s3 = boto3.resource('s3',
                    aws_access_key_id=<access_key>,
                    aws_secret_access_key=<secret_key>
                    )
content_object = s3.Object('test', 'sample_json.txt')
file_content = content_object.get()['Body'].read().decode('utf-8')
json_content = json.loads(repr(file_content))
print(json_content['Details'])

And i am getting error as 'string indices must be integers' I don't want to download the file from S3 and then reading..

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments above, repr has to be removed and the json file has to use double quotes for attributes. Using this file on aws/s3:

{
  "Details" : "Something"
}

and the following Python code, it works:

import boto3
import json

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')

content_object = s3.Object('test', 'sample_json.txt')
file_content = content_object.get()['Body'].read().decode('utf-8')
json_content = json.loads(file_content)
print(json_content['Details'])
# >> Something