Amazon S3 boto - how to delete folder?

Question

I created a folder in s3 named \"test\" and I pushed \"test_1.jpg\", \"test_2.jpg\" into \"test\".

How can I use boto to delete folder \"test\"?

Answer 1

A slight improvement on Patrick's solution. As you might know, both list_objects() and delete_objects() have an object limit of 1000. This is why you have to paginate listing and delete in chunks. This is pretty universal and you can give Prefix to paginator.paginate() to delete subdirectories/paths

client = boto3.client('s3', **credentials)
paginator = client.get_paginator('list_objects_v2')
pages = paginator.paginate(Bucket=self.bucket_name)

delete_us = dict(Objects=[])
for item in pages.search('Contents'):
    delete_us['Objects'].append(dict(Key=item['Key']))

    # flush once aws limit reached
    if len(delete_us['Objects']) >= 1000:
        client.delete_objects(Bucket=bucket, Delete=delete_us)
        delete_us = dict(Objects=[])

# flush rest
if len(delete_us['Objects']):
    client.delete_objects(Bucket=bucket, Delete=delete_us)