Quick way to list all files in Amazon S3 bucket?

Question

I have an amazon s3 bucket that has tens of thousands of filenames in it. What\'s the easiest way to get a text file that lists all the filenames in the bucket?

Answer 1

AWS CLI

Documentation for aws s3 ls

AWS have recently release their Command Line Tools. This works much like boto and can be installed using sudo easy_install awscli or sudo pip install awscli

Once you have installed, you can then simply run

aws s3 ls

Which will show you all of your available buckets

CreationTime Bucket
       ------------ ------
2013-07-11 17:08:50 mybucket
2013-07-24 14:55:44 mybucket2

You can then query a specific bucket for files.

Command:

aws s3 ls s3://mybucket

Output:

Bucket: mybucket
Prefix:

      LastWriteTime     Length Name
      -------------     ------ ----
                           PRE somePrefix/
2013-07-25 17:06:27         88 test.txt

This will show you all of your files.