How to download the latest file of an S3 bucket using Boto3?

Question

The other questions I could find were refering to an older version of Boto. I would like to download the latest file of an S3 bucket. In the documentation I found that there

Answer 1

This handles when there are more than 1000 objects in the s3 bucket. This is basically @SaadK answer without the for loop and using newer version for list_objects_v2.

EDIT: Fixes issue @Timothée-Jeannin identified. Ensures that latest across all pages is identified.

https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/s3.html#S3.Paginator.ListObjectsV2

import boto3

def get_most_recent_s3_object(bucket_name, prefix):
    s3 = boto3.client('s3')
    paginator = s3.get_paginator( "list_objects_v2" )
    page_iterator = paginator.paginate(Bucket=bucket_name, Prefix=prefix)
    latest = None
    for page in page_iterator:
        if "Contents" in page:
            latest2 = max(page['Contents'], key=lambda x: x['LastModified'])
            if latest is None or latest2['LastModified'] > latest['LastModified']:
                latest = latest2
    return latest

latest = get_most_recent_s3_object(bucket_name, prefix)

latest['Key']  # -->   'prefix/objectname'