Boto3 S3, sort bucket by last modified

Question

I need to fetch a list of items from S3 using Boto3, but instead of returning default sort order (descending) I want it to return it via reverse order.

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Answer 1

If there are not many objects in the bucket, you can use Python to sort it to your needs.

Define a lambda to get the last modified time:

get_last_modified = lambda obj: int(obj['LastModified'].strftime('%s'))

Get all objects and sort them by last modified time.

s3 = boto3.client('s3')
objs = s3.list_objects_v2(Bucket='my_bucket')['Contents']
[obj['Key'] for obj in sorted(objs, key=get_last_modified)]

If you want to reverse the sort:

[obj['Key'] for obj in sorted(objs, key=get_last_modified, reverse=True)]