upload a directory to s3 with boto

Question

I am already connected to the instance and I want to upload the files that are generated from my python script directly to S3. I have tried this:

import boto s3 = boto.connect_s3() bucket = s3.get_bucket('alexandrabucket') from boto.s3.key import Key key = bucket.new_key('s0').set_contents_from_string('some content') 

but this is rather creating a new file s0 with the context "same content" while I want to upload the directory s0 to mybucket.

I had a look also to s3put but I didn't manage to get what I want.

Answer 1

The following function can be used to upload directory to s3 via boto.

    def uploadDirectory(path,bucketname):         for root,dirs,files in os.walk(path):             for file in files:                 s3C.upload_file(os.path.join(root,file),bucketname,file) 

Provide a path to the directory and bucket name as the inputs. The files are placed directly into the bucket. Alter the last variable of the upload_file() function to place them in "directories".