How to download files from s3 given the file path using boto3 in python

Question

Pretty basic but I am not able to download files given s3 path.

for eg, I have this s3://name1/name2/file_name.txt

import boto3
locations = ['s3://name1/name2/file_name.txt']
s3_client = boto3.client('s3')
bucket = 'name1'
prefix = 'name2'

for file in locations:
    s3_client.download_file(bucket, 'file_name.txt', 'my_local_folder')

I am getting error as botocore.exceptions.ClientError: An error occurred (404) when calling the HeadObject operation: Not Found

This file exists as when I download. using aws cli as s3 path: s3://name1/name2/file_name.txt .

Answer 1

You need to have a list of filename paths, then modify your code like shown in the documentation:

import os
import boto3
import botocore

files = ['name2/file_name.txt']

bucket = 'name1'

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')

for file in files:
   try:
       s3.Bucket(bucket).download_file(file, os.path.basename(file))
   except botocore.exceptions.ClientError as e:
       if e.response['Error']['Code'] == "404":
           print("The object does not exist.")
       else:
           raise

Answer 2

You may need to do this with some type of authentication. There are several methods, but creating a session is simple and fast:

from boto3.session import Session

bucket_name = 'your_bucket_name'
folder_prefix = 'your/path/to/download/files'
credentials = 'credentials.txt'

with open(credentials, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    line = f.readline().strip()
    access_key = line.split(':')[0]
    secret_key = line.split(':')[1]

session = Session(
    aws_access_key_id=access_key,
    aws_secret_access_key=secret_key
)

s3 = session.resource('s3')
bucket = s3.Bucket(bucket_name)

for s3_file in bucket.objects.filter(Prefix=folder_prefix):
    file_object = s3_file.key
    file_name = str(file_object.split('/')[-1])
    print('Downloading file {} ...'.format(file_object))
    bucket.download_file(file_object, '/tmp/{}'.format(file_name))

In credentials.txt file you must add a single line where you concatenate the access key id and the secret, for example:

~$ cat credentials.txt
AKIAIO5FODNN7EXAMPLE:ABCDEF+c2L7yXeGvUyrPgYsDnWRRC1AYEXAMPLE

Don't forget to protect this file well on your host, give read-only permissions for the user who runs this program. I hope it works for you, it works perfectly for me.