Upload image available at public URL to S3 using boto

Question

I\'m working in a Python web environment and I can simply upload a file from the filesystem to S3 using boto\'s key.set_contents_from_filename(path/to/file). However, I\'d l

Answer 1

A simple 3-lines implementation that works on a lambda out-of-the-box:

import boto3
import requests

s3_object = boto3.resource('s3').Object(bucket_name, object_key)

with requests.get(url, stream=True) as r:
    s3_object.put(Body=r.content)

The source for the .get part comes straight from the requests documentation