Read a csv file from aws s3 using boto and pandas

Question

I have already read through the answers available here and here and these do not help.

I am trying to read a csv object from S3 bucket and have been able to successfully read the data using the following code.

srcFileName="gossips.csv"
def on_session_started():
  print("Starting new session.")
  conn = S3Connection()
  my_bucket = conn.get_bucket("randomdatagossip", validate=False)
  print("Bucket Identified")
  print(my_bucket)
  key = Key(my_bucket,srcFileName)
  key.open()
  print(key.read())
  conn.close()

on_session_started()

However, if I try to read the same object using pandas as a data frame, I get an error. The most common one being S3ResponseError: 403 Forbidden

def on_session_started2():
  print("Starting Second new session.")
  conn = S3Connection()
  my_bucket = conn.get_bucket("randomdatagossip", validate=False)
  #     url = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/randomdatagossip/gossips.csv"
  #     urllib2.urlopen(url)

  for line in smart_open.smart_open('s3://my_bucket/gossips.csv'):
     print line
  #     data = pd.read_csv(url)
  #     print(data)

on_session_started2()

What am I doing wrong? I am on python 2.7 and cannot use Python 3.

Answer 1

Here is what I have done to successfully read the df from a csv on S3.

import pandas as pd
import boto3

bucket = "yourbucket"
file_name = "your_file.csv"

s3 = boto3.client('s3') 
# 's3' is a key word. create connection to S3 using default config and all buckets within S3

obj = s3.get_object(Bucket= bucket, Key= file_name) 
# get object and file (key) from bucket

initial_df = pd.read_csv(obj['Body']) # 'Body' is a key word